Walter Pater (1839-1894) was educated at the Kings' School, Canterbury, and at Oxford, where he was later elected a fellow of Brasenose College. His publication of The Renaissance in 1873 caused a stir within the walls of the university, as well as outside, for its positive views on hedonism. Despite controversy, he became a formative influence on the aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century.
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Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater's compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the 'holy writ of beauty.' It was Pater's cry of 'art f... SEE MORE