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100	1		_aBenson, Arthur Christopher, _d1862-1925
245	1	0	_aWalter Pater
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEnglish men of letters
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-26
505	0		_aEarly life -- Early writings -- Oxford life -- Marius the Epicurean -- London life -- Later writings -- Personal characteristics.
508			_aSean/IB@DP
520			_aWalter Pater by Arthur Christopher Benson is a literary biography and critical study written in the early 20th century. It explores the life, temperament, and aesthetic philosophy of the Victorian critic Walter Pater, pairing narrative with close readings of his major works. The emphasis falls on Pater’s Oxford career, his method of “imaginative” criticism, and the cultural ripple of his Renaissance studies. The opening of the book explains the absence of an official life and how the author builds his account from Pater’s sisters, friends, and published sources, then outlines the contents. It traces Pater’s quiet, observant childhood, Canterbury schooldays, and early sensitivity to beauty and ritual, notes Keble’s brief influence, and points to autobiographical threads in The Child in the House and Emerald Uthwart. At Oxford he reads Ruskin and German thinkers, takes a second in Greats, wins a Brasenose fellowship, and—after Italy and Winckelmann—shifts decisively from metaphysics to art. The narrative dwells on his austere rooms, regular habits, gentle but exacting teaching of essays, and a circle that includes Shadwell, Bywater, Pattison, and the Wards. It then surveys the early writings—Diaphaneitè, the Coleridge essay, and especially Studies in the History of the Renaissance—summarizing key essays on Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Giorgione, and Du Bellay, and the debated “Conclusion” and its later revisions. The section closes with the reception: the aesthetic movement’s embrace, Mallock’s satirical caricature in The New Republic, and tensions with Jowett that affected Pater’s standing at Oxford. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1906
653			_aAuthors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
653			_aCritics -- Great Britain -- Biography
653			_aPater, Walter, 1839-1894
830		0	_aEnglish men of letters
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/walterpater0000bens/page/n3/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76935
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