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Walter Pater

1839 - 1894

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Pater is the 3,063rd most popular writer (down from 2,897th in 2019), the 2,507th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,133rd in 2019) and the 276th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Walter Pater ranks 3,063 out of 7,302. Before him are Charlotte Smith, Jules Barbier, Juan Ruiz, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Maksim Bahdanovič, and Şihabetdin Märcani. After him are Simon of Kéza, Vizma Belševica, René Daumal, Jean Rhys, Karel Havlíček Borovský, and Miodrag Bulatović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Walter Pater ranks 51. Before him are Pōmare V, Joseph Oller, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Abdyl Frashëri, Eduard Nápravník, and Nagakura Shinpachi. After him are Pascual Cervera y Topete, Georges Rayet, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, George Clement Perkins, Nils Christoffer Dunér, and August W. Eichler. Among people deceased in 1894, Walter Pater ranks 44. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann, Theophan the Recluse, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pavel Yablochkov, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, and Maria Deraismes. After him are Auguste Vaillant, Marietta Alboni, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Franjo Rački, Charles Laval, and Gall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 2,508 out of 8,785. Before him are Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), William Etty (1787), Josephine Butler (1828), Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873), Alfred Edwards (1850), and Alec Jeffreys (1950). After him are Luke Howard (1772), York Bowen (1884), Harold Abrahams (1899), Paul Robinson (1979), John Fastolf (1380), and Madge Syers (1881).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 276. Before him are Tom Sharpe (1928), John Cleland (1709), Francis Beaumont (1584), John Aubrey (1626), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), and Charlotte Smith (1749). After him are Josephine Tey (1896), Samuel Smiles (1812), Dodie Smith (1896), Jack Higgins (1929), Herbert Read (1893), and Frederick Denison Maurice (1805).

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