Walter Pater

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aesthetic philosopher art critic essayist human literary critic

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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Label	Occurrences
Walter Pater canonical	5
Walter Horatio Pater	1

Statements (54)

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