Walter Pater (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Walter Horatio Pater (PAY-tur) was born in London on August 4, 1839. Having attended King’s School in Canterbury and graduated with a B.A. degree from Queen’s College, Oxford, he was made Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, from which he received his M.A. degree in 1865. He was connected with this college in some capacity during most of the rest of his life. During vacations he often traveled on the Continent. He died at Oxford after a brief illness, on July 30, 1894.
Much of Pater’s literary output consisted of critical essays on aesthetic subjects, most of which were...
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