English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Walter Pater and Aestheticism
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The idea
Walter Pater, an Oxford don, published Studies in the History of the Renaissance in eighteen seventy-three. Its Conclusion urges living intensely: "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." The anchor ties him to Aestheticism.
In practice
The gem-like flame.
Where people slip
Pater influenced Wilde.
Your place on the trail
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