biography
| name: |
Pater, Walter (Horatio)
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pronunciation:
[payter]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1839–94)
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| biography:
| Critic and essayist, born in London, UK. He studied at Canterbury and Oxford, where he worked as a scholar, and became known with his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873). His philosophical romance, Marius the Epicurean (1885), appealed to a wider audience, dealing with the spread of Christianity in the days of catacombs. He developed a highly polished prose style, and exercised considerable influence on the aesthetic movements of his time. |
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