Walter Pater
(1839-1894)

aesthete, writer, author, and scholar

Died aged 54

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.

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Walter Pater 1839-1894 aesthete and writer lived and worked here 1885-1893

12 Earls Terrace, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1885-1893) and worked (1885-1893)

Walter Pater 1839-1894 author and scholar Clara Pater 1841-1910 pioneer of women's education lived here 1869-1885

2 Bradmore Road, Oxford, United Kingdom where they lived