Category: Biographies
Very little is recorded and still less is known about the pedigree of Pater. It is only in the main line of families that are established in ancestral estates, and whose home is inherited by a succession of heirs, that family traditions are apt to accumulate.
Very little is recorded and still less is known about the pedigree of Pater. It is only in the main line of families that are established in ancestral estates, and whose home is...
2. CHAPTER III have thought it best in this study of a life marked by so few external events, to follow as far as possible the chronological order of Pater’s writings, for this reason; that...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe years that succeeded the first publication of the _Renaissance_ were not years of very strenuous literary work. Pater was at this time holding the Tutorship of the College,...
4. CHAPTER IVWhen or how Pater began to form the design of _Marius the Epicurean_ is not known. I cannot help doubting whether it was at first intended to be so large a work. His method of w...
5. CHAPTER VIn 1885, the year of the publication of _Marius_, Pater made a change in his environment; he took a house in London, No. 12, Earl’s Terrace, Kensington, near Holland House, whic...
6. CHAPTER VIAll this time Pater was engaged upon a great work, which was destined never to be finished. _Gaston de Latour_ was embarked upon soon after the completion of _Marius_. Five chap...
7. CHAPTER VIIIn younger days Pater was refined and dignified in appearance; there is an early photograph of him, shortly after he took his degree, with a soft eye, a serious gentle look, wit...