In this blog post, we explore why the writing style of Walter Horatio Pater, known as the ‘Hermit of Art,’ is both beautiful and difficult. Walter Horatio Pater, a Victorian writer who contemplated life through the window of art he constructed and lived an aesthetic life of seclusion, was born on August 4, 1839, in Shoreditch, East London, as the second son of John Pater, a physician...