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Bate, Walter Jackson
Born: 1918 AD
Died: 1999 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Biographers, Scholars
Died: 1999 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Biographers, Scholars
1918 - Born on May 23rd in Mankato, Minnesota. American author and literary biographer known for his studies of the English writers John Keats and Samuel Johnson.
1939 - Bate graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.
1942 - Received his Ph.D.from Harvard University.
1945 - The Modern Language Association published Bate's Stylistic Development of Keats.
1946 - Bate taught history and literature at Harvard University.
1949 - Appointed Associate Professor of English in Harvard University.
1955 - His work 'The Achievement of Samuel Johnson' was awarded the Gauss Prize for literary history and criticism.
1956 - He was chairman of the department of English.
1963-1964 - His full-length biography John Keats was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
- Bate was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for John Keats, a biography of the charismatic 18th-century English poet who died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
1968 - Bate's other works include From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England and Coleridge.
1977-1978 - His 'Samuel Johnson', a colorful account of Johnson's personality and a vivid portrayal of the times in which he lived, won the acclaim of scholars and critics and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
1999 - Died on July 26th in Boston, Massachusetts.
1939 - Bate graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.
1942 - Received his Ph.D.from Harvard University.
1945 - The Modern Language Association published Bate's Stylistic Development of Keats.
1946 - Bate taught history and literature at Harvard University.
1949 - Appointed Associate Professor of English in Harvard University.
1955 - His work 'The Achievement of Samuel Johnson' was awarded the Gauss Prize for literary history and criticism.
1956 - He was chairman of the department of English.
1963-1964 - His full-length biography John Keats was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
- Bate was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for John Keats, a biography of the charismatic 18th-century English poet who died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
1968 - Bate's other works include From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England and Coleridge.
1977-1978 - His 'Samuel Johnson', a colorful account of Johnson's personality and a vivid portrayal of the times in which he lived, won the acclaim of scholars and critics and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
1999 - Died on July 26th in Boston, Massachusetts.
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John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Paperback - Jan 1, 1979) The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious... ![]() |
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Burden of the Past and the English Poet (The Norton library) by Walter Jackson Bate (Paperback - Jun 25, 1972) In this reissue of a classic work in modern literary criticism, W. Jackson Bate presents a thoughtful and informed investigation of the responses of English writers to the perennial dilemma of modern... |
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