Walter Pater | |
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 Pater in the 1890s (photograph by Elliott & Fry) | |
| Born | 4 August 1839 Stepney, London, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 30 July 1894 (aged 54) Oxford, England |
| Resting place | Holywell Cemetery |
| Occupation | Academic, essayist, writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Genres | Essay, 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) |
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.[1][2]