Books About Pater
- Michael Levey, The Case of Walter Pater (Thames & Hudson, London, 1978)
- William F. Shuter, Rereading Walter Pater (Cambridge, 1997); 'Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture' series, ISBN 0-521-01981-8 / 0-521-01981-8
- David Cecil, Walter Pater the Scholar Artist (1955)
- W. Sharp, Papers Critical and Reminiscent (1912)
- T. Wright, The Life of Walter Pater (1907)
- A. C. Benson, Walter Pater (1906)
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