Pater, Walter Horatio

Japanese: ペーター（英語表記）Pater， Walter Horatio

Born: August 4, 1839, London
[Died] July 30, 1894. Oxford. British critic and essayist. Studied at Oxford University, where he spent most of his life as a research fellow. As a student, he became familiar with Ruskin's "Modern Painters" and resonated with the aesthetic movement of the Pre-Raphaelites. His breakthrough work, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a succinct expression of his aesthetic ideas, using Renaissance artists as its subject. Other works he produced include the novel Marius the Epicurean (85), the collection of short stories Imaginary Portraits (87), Appreciations (89) on his native literature, Plato and Platonism (93), the posthumous Greek Studies (95), and the unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (96). In both his style and his ideas, he had a great influence on fin de siecle literature such as Wilde and G. Moore, and, through Yeats, on 20th century writers.

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[生]1839.8.4. ロンドン
[没]1894.7.30. オックスフォード
イギリスの批評家，随筆家。オックスフォード大学に学び，特別研究員として生涯の大半を学窓で過した。学生時代ラスキンの『近代画家論』に親しみ，ラファエル前派の人々の審美主義運動に共鳴した。出世作でまた代表作の『ルネサンス』 Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) は，ルネサンスの芸術家を題材に，彼の唯美主義的思想を最も端的に表明したもの。ほかに小説『享楽主義者マリウス』 Marius the Epicurean (85) ，短編集『空想の肖像画』 Imaginary Portraits (87) ，自国の文学を扱った『鑑賞集』 Appreciations (89) ，『プラトンとプラトニズム』 Plato and Platonism (93) ，死後出版の『ギリシア研究』 Greek Studies (95) ，未完の小説『ガストン・ド・ラトゥール』 Gaston de Latour (96) 。その文体と思想双方において，ワイルドや G.ムアらの世紀末文学に，またイェーツを通じて 20世紀の作家にも大きな影響を与えた。

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