Walter Pater
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English writer, critic and essayist (1839–1894)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1839-08-04 ) 4 August 1839, Stepney , London, Middlesex, England
- Died
- 30 July 1894 (1894-07-30) (aged 54), Oxford , England
- Resting place
- Holywell Cemetery
- Occupation
- Academic, essayist, writer
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- Genres
- Art criticism , literary criticism , literary fiction
- Literary movement
- Aestheticism
- Notable works
- The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885)
- Notable awards
- Honorary LL.D , University of Glasgow (1894)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Shadwell
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- art critic
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Walter-pater-1.jpg
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- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Walter Pater
- date of birth
- 1839-08-04
- date of death
- 1894-07-30
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Balindong
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Walter Pater, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto (whether stimulating or subversive) of Aestheticism.
Early life
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