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Walter Pater

Walter Pater
Pater in the 1890s (photograph by Elliott & Fry)
Pater in the 1890s (photograph by Elliott & Fry)
Born(1839-08-04)4 August 1839
Stepney, London, Middlesex, England
Died30 July 1894(1894-07-30) (aged 54)
Oxford, England
Resting placeHolywell Cemetery
OccupationAcademic, essayist, writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materThe Queen's College, Oxford
GenresEssay, art criticism, literary criticism, literary fiction
Literary movementAestheticism
Notable worksThe Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885)
Notable awardsHonorary 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]

  1. ^ Patmore, Derek, Walter Pater: Selected Writings (London, 1949), p.11
  2. ^ Ostermark-Johansen, L. (ed.), The Collected Works of Walter Pater: Imaginary Portraits (Oxford, 2019), p.31

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