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Walter Pater

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English writer, critic and essayist (1839-1894)

WritersLived 1839 to 1894 · aged 54
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Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.

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Pater as a young don at BrasenosePater as a young don at BrasenoseWalter Pater lived at 2 Bradmore Road in North Oxford (the right-hand house with a blue plaque) between 1869 and 1885 with his sisters, including Clara Pater, a pioneer of women's education.[23]Walter Pater lived at 2 Bradmore Road in North Oxford (the right-hand house with a blue plaque) between 1869 and 1885 with his sisters, including Clara Pater, a pioneer of women's education.[23]Plaque at 2 Bradmore Road, OxfordPlaque at 2 Bradmore Road, OxfordWalter Pater lived with his sisters at 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington (house with blue plaque) between 1885 and 1893.[23]Walter Pater lived with his sisters at 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington (house with blue plaque) between 1885 and 1893.[23]Blue plaque, 12 Earls Terrace, KensingtonBlue plaque, 12 Earls Terrace, KensingtonThe Bodleian copy of An Imaginary Portrait (1894), re-bound for the Library in 1916 by Katharine Adams (1862-1952) with her cover-designThe Bodleian copy of An Imaginary Portrait (1894), re-bound for the Library in 1916 by Katharine Adams (1862-1952) with her cover-designCopy of Polykleitos' 'Diadumenos', discussed by Pater in 'The Age of Athletic Prizemen' (1894)Copy of Polykleitos' 'Diadumenos', discussed by Pater in 'The Age of Athletic Prizemen' (1894)

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Walter Horatio Pater 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 of Aestheticism.

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Lived 1839 to 1894 · aged 54
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