Walter Pater

Walter Pater is a biography of the renowned English scholar and writer by Arthur C. Benson. Described by Benson as the first book to examine the life and times of Pater, the book examines the course of this man's life from childhood, to the time he spent at Oxford and his time spent writing his most famous book, Marius the Epicurian. Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) was a humanist and high priest of the Aesthetic Movement.