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{{Short description|American literary critic and biographer (1918–1999)}}
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[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1978 "National Book Awards – 1978"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.</ref>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1978 "National Book Awards – 1978"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.</ref>


== Biography ==
Bate was born in [[Mankato, Minnesota]]. He studied (under [[Douglas Bush]]) and later taught at [[Harvard University]].
Bate was born in [[Mankato, Minnesota]]. He studied under [[Douglas Bush]] and later taught at [[Harvard University]].


His critical work, especially ''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'', responds to and anticipates some aspects of the work of [[Harold Bloom]]. His biographies of Keats and Johnson have enjoyed extraordinary reputations both as scholarly resources and as works of literature in their own right. [[Jane Kenyon]], one of many writers to be influenced by the Keats biography, paraphrases it in her poem "Reading Late of the Death of Keats":
His critical work, especially ''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'', responds to and anticipates some aspects of the work of [[Harold Bloom]]. His biographies of Keats and Johnson have enjoyed extraordinary reputations both as scholarly resources and as works of literature in their own right.


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He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1957 and a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1966.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 20, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Walter+Bate&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Bate retired from teaching at Harvard in 1986, and died on July 26, 1999, at [[Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center]] in [[Boston]], aged 81.<ref>{{cite news|title=Walter J. Bate, 81, Professor and Biographer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/28/arts/walter-j-bate-81-professor-and-biographer.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 1999}}</ref> A brief memoir appeared in 2013.<ref>Robert D. Richardson, ''Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature; with an interview by John Paul Russo'' (Boston: Godine, 2014).</ref>
:Clearly I had packed the wrong book<br>in my haste: Keats died, propped up<br>to get more air. Severn<br>straightened the body on the bed,<br>and cut three dampened curls<br>from Keats's head.

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He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1957.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=May 20, 2011}}</ref> Bate retired from teaching at Harvard in 1986, and died on July 26, 1999, at [[Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center]] in [[Boston]], aged 81.<ref>{{cite news|title=Walter J. Bate, 81, Professor and Biographer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/28/arts/walter-j-bate-81-professor-and-biographer.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 1999}}</ref> A brief memoir appeared in 2013.<ref>Robert D. Richardson, ''Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature; with an interview by John Paul Russo'' (Boston: Godine, 2014).</ref>


==Major works==
==Major works==
*''[[Negative Capability]]: The Intuitive Approach in Keats'' (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012).
*''Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats'' (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012).
*''From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-century England'' (1946).
*''From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England'' (1946; reprinted in 1961).
*''Criticism: The Major Texts'' edited by (1952).
*''Criticism: The Major Texts'' edited by (1952).
*''The Achievement of Samuel Johnson'' (1955).
*''The Achievement of Samuel Johnson'' (1955).
*''The Stylistic Development of Keats'' (1958).
*''The Stylistic Development of Keats'' (1958).
*''Prefaces to Criticism'' (1959).
*''Prefaces to Criticism'' (1959).
*''From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-century England'' (1961).
*''John Keats'' (1963).
*''John Keats'' (1963).
*''Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays'' (1964).
*''Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays'' (1964).
*''Coleridge'' (1968).
*[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|''Coleridge'']] (1968).
*''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'' (1970).
*''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'' (1970).
*''Samuel Johnson'' (1977).
*''Samuel Johnson'' (1977).
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/06.01/bate.html Extensive biography from the Harvard University Gazette.]
*[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2000/06/faculty-of-arts-and-sciences-memorial-minute-w-jackson-bate/ Extensive biography from the Harvard University Gazette.]
* {{C-SPAN|57868}}


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Walter Jackson Bate
BornMay 23, 1918
Mankato, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedJuly 26, 1999(1999-07-26) (aged 81)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationProfessor
Alma materHarvard University (AB, AM, PhD)
GenreLiterary criticism, biography
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize
National Book Award

Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964).[1] Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.[2]

Biography[edit]

Bate was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He studied under Douglas Bush and later taught at Harvard University.

His critical work, especially The Burden of the Past and the English Poet, responds to and anticipates some aspects of the work of Harold Bloom. His biographies of Keats and Johnson have enjoyed extraordinary reputations both as scholarly resources and as works of literature in their own right.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1966.[3][4] Bate retired from teaching at Harvard in 1986, and died on July 26, 1999, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, aged 81.[5] A brief memoir appeared in 2013.[6]

Major works[edit]

  • Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012).
  • From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (1946; reprinted in 1961).
  • Criticism: The Major Texts edited by (1952).
  • The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (1955).
  • The Stylistic Development of Keats (1958).
  • Prefaces to Criticism (1959).
  • John Keats (1963).
  • Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays (1964).
  • Coleridge (1968).
  • The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970).
  • Samuel Johnson (1977).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Biography or Autobiography". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  2. ^ "National Book Awards – 1978". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  3. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
  4. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  5. ^ "Walter J. Bate, 81, Professor and Biographer". The New York Times. July 28, 1999.
  6. ^ Robert D. Richardson, Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature; with an interview by John Paul Russo (Boston: Godine, 2014).

External links[edit]

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