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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Pater has received more than 541,961 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Pater is the 2,815th most popular writer (down from 2,579th in 2019), the 2,117th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,951st in 2019) and the 239th most popular British Writer.

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  • 540k

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  • 52.20

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter Pater ranks 2,815 out of 5,755Before him are Jean Ray, Miguel Torga, Józef Czapski, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Giovanni Pontano, and Leon Uris. After him are Francis Ponge, Ouida, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andre Norton, and Lucia Berlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Walter Pater ranks 42Before him are Imre Steindl, Pavlo Chubynsky, Francis Garnier, Jane Morris, Hermann Hankel, and Pōmare V. After him are Ouida, Nikolai Linevich, Abdyl Frashëri, George Mary Searle, Bernardino Caballero, and Julius Petersen. Among people deceased in 1894, Walter Pater ranks 39Before him are Władysław Czartoryski, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Heinrich Hoffmann, Auguste Vaillant, and Émile Henry. After him are Marietta Alboni, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, William Robertson Smith, William Waddington, Juventino Rosas, and Pavel Yablochkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 2,117 out of 7,765Before him are Mark Williams (1959), Thomas Wright (1711), John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), Barbara Steele (1937), William Blackstone (1723), and Tommy Taylor (1932). After him are Charles Wesley (1707), Joseph Fiennes (1970), Ouida (1839), Tom Hollander (1967), Peter Frampton (1950), and Prince Henri of Orléans (1867).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Walter Pater ranks 239Before him are Max Beerbohm (1872), Angela Carter (1940), Samuel Smiles (1812), Anna Sewell (1820), John Wyndham (1903), and David Gemmell (1948). After him are Ouida (1839), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Edwin Arnold (1832), Ephraim Chambers (1680), Thomas Kyd (1558), and Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915).