Walter Pater
Walter Pater Walter Horatio Pater (1839–1894) was an essayist, literary and art critic, and novelist.
He was born in Stepney, the son of a doctor, who died while Walter was an infant. The family then moved to Enfield. He was educated at the King's School Canterbury and Queen's College, Oxford. He abandoned boyhood thoughts of becoming a clergyman, and remained in Oxford as a private tutor and then a fellow of Brasenose College.
Letters have recently emerged documenting a "romance"[1] with a nineteen-year-old Balliol undergraduate, William Money Hardinge, who had attracted unfavorable attention as a result of his outspoken homosexuality and blasphemous verse, and who later became a novelist.[14] Many of Pater's works focus on male beauty, friendship and love, either in a Platonic way or, obliquely, in a more physical way.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag who summoned Pater:
- "Pater's whole nature changed under the strain" (wrote A. C. Benson in his diary) "after the dreadful interview with Jowett. He became old, crushed, despairing – and this dreadful weight lasted for years; it was years before he realised that Jowett would not use them."[2]
References
- ↑ Billie Andrew Inman | year = 1991 | title = Pater in the 1990s |chapter = Estrangement and Connection: Walter Pater, Benjamin Jowett, and William M. Hardinge | url = http://www.uncg.edu/eng/elt/pater/chap2.html | accessdate =27 November 2007 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070804230203/http://www.uncg.edu/eng/elt/pater/chap2.html |archivedate = 4 August 2007
- ↑ A. C. Benson, Diary, 73, 1 September 1905; Walter Pater: An Imaginative Sense of Fact, ed. Philip Dodd (London, 1981), p.48
