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| birth_date = May 23, 1918 |
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| ⚫ | '''Walter Jackson Bate''' (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an [[United States|American]] literary critic and biographer. He is known for [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning biographies, of [[John Keats]] and [[Samuel Johnson]].<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography "Biography or Autobiography"]. ''Past winners and finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.</ref> |
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''Samuel Johnson'' also won the 1978 U.S. [[National Book Award]] [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Biography|in Biography]].<ref name=nba1978> |
''Samuel Johnson'' also won the 1978 U.S. [[National Book Award]] [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Biography|in Biography]].<ref name=nba1978> |
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[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1978.html "National Book Awards – 1978"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.</ref> |
[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1978.html "National Book Awards – 1978"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.</ref> |
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Bate was born in [[Mankato, Minnesota]]. |
Bate was born in [[Mankato, Minnesota]]. He studied (under [[Douglas Bush]]) and later taught at [[Harvard University]]. |
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He studied (under [[Douglas Bush]]) and later taught at [[Harvard University]]. |
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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. [[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": |
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| NAME = Bate, Walter Jackson |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American biographer |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = May 23, 1918 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = Mankato, Minnesota |
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| DATE OF DEATH = July 26, 1999 |
| DATE OF DEATH = July 26, 1999 |
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Revision as of 22:15, 4 July 2012
Walter Jackson Bate | |
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| Born | May 23, 1918 Mankato, Minnesota |
| Died | July 26, 1999 (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Genre | Literary criticism, biography |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer 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-winning biographies, of John Keats and Samuel Johnson.[1] Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.[2]
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":
- Clearly I had packed the wrong book
in my haste: Keats died, propped up
to get more air. Severn
straightened the body on the bed,
and cut three dampened curls
from Keats's head.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.[3] Bate retired from teaching at Harvard in 1986, and died at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, aged 81.
Major works
- The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (1955).
- From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-century England (1961).
- John Keats (1963).
- Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1965).
- Coleridge (1968).
- The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970).
- Samuel Johnson (1977).
References
- ^ "Biography or Autobiography". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1978". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
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