Walter Pater - in Literature

In Literature

  • Pater's The Renaissance is praised as a "wonderful new volume" in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence, set in the 1870s.
  • Lines from the 'Conclusion' to Pater's Renaissance are quoted among the sixth formers in Julian Mitchell's 1982 play Another Country.
  • Pater, along with several of his colleagues, appears as a minor character in Tom Stoppard's play The Invention of Love.
  • Pater is the subject of a poem by Billy Collins named The Great Walter Pater.
  • Citations from Pater's The Renaissance are sprinkled throughout Frederic Tuten's novel The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
  • Pater is referred to in W. Somerset Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage', at the end of Chapter 41.

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