Walter Pater
1839-1894
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Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art critic, and academic best remembered for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a book at the forefront of the aesthetic movement which advocated “art for art’s sake” and considered a successful life to “burn always with this hard, gemlike flame.”
The Child in the House and Other Imaginary Portraits