Walter Pater

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Walter Pater was a 19th-century English essayist and critic whose aesthetic philosophy and refined prose style profoundly shaped the development of aestheticism and writers like Oscar Wilde.

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Walter Pater canonical 5
Walter Horatio Pater 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aesthetic philosopher
art critic
essayist
human
literary critic
activePeriod 19th century
almaMater Queen's College, Oxford NERFINISHED
birthCountry United Kingdom
birthDate 1839-08-04
birthPlace London, England
surface form: London

Stepney
burialPlace Holywell Cemetery, Oxford
causeOfDeath heart disease
deathDate 1894-07-30
educatedAt The King’s School, Canterbury
surface form: King's School, Canterbury
employer University of Oxford
familyName Pater
fieldOfWork art criticism
literary criticism
philosophy of art
fullName Walter Pater self-linksurface differs
surface form: Walter Horatio Pater
genre essay
philosophical fiction
givenName Walter
influenced Edward White Benson
surface form: A. C. Benson

Henry James
James Joyce
Lionel Johnson
Oscar Wilde
Aestheticism
surface form: the aesthetic movement
influencedBy German philosophy
John Ruskin
Plato
knownFor formulation of the aesthetic life
influence on English decadent literature
language English
middleName Horatio
movement aestheticism
Decadentism
surface form: decadent movement
name Walter Pater self-link
nationality English
notableWork Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
Greek Studies
Imaginary Portraits
Marius the Epicurean
Platonism
surface form: Plato and Platonism

Studies in the History of the Renaissance
occupation academic
art critic
essayist
literary critic
philosophicalView aestheticism
residence Oxford
writingStyle refined prose

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Oscar Wilde influencedBy Walter Pater
Aestheticism notableProponent Walter Pater
Walter Pater name Walter Pater self-link
Walter Pater fullName Walter Pater self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Walter Horatio Pater
Marius the Epicurean author Walter Pater
Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) influencedBy Walter Pater
subject surface form: Michael Field