Date of Award
1934
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Graduate Thesis
Department
English
Abstract
A study of Walter Pater's work reveals the fact that from childhood he was actuated by an instinctive love of beauty apprehended through the senses and by an innate seriousness bordering almost on melancholy.
Recommended Citation
Harris, Margaret, "The Classical Background as a Factor in the Spiritual Development of Walter Pater’s ‘Marius the Epicurean’" (1934). Graduate Thesis Collection. 26.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/26