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    Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great...
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    his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), written between 1881 and 1884...
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  • painter Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist Pater (film), a 2011 French film Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband Stade Pater Te Hono...
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    compared to later scholars from Walter Pater through Michel Foucault, to the present. See Adam Lee, The Platonism of Walter Pater: Embodied Equity (Oxford University...
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  • artistic history of the late-Victorian period. Harold Bloom, a scholar of Walter Pater, contended that the character of Housman and those in his circle are...
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    1880s, gaining prominence and the support of notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. Aestheticism challenged the values of mainstream Victorian...
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    Thomas Browne, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Brontë, Thomas de Quincey, and Walter Pater as influences.[page needed] Among her...
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    Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, chapter 5 (1885) Gutenberg Project: Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, Vol. 1 (plain text) Blackmask: Walter Pater...
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    with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable...
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    an interpretation that was first proposed by the English art critic Walter Pater (1839–1894) and is now widely accepted, the person protected by God's...
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