Walter Jackson Bate

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Walter Jackson Bate was an influential American literary critic and biographer, best known for his acclaimed studies of Samuel Johnson and John Keats.

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instanceOf biographer
human
literary critic
university teacher
awardReceived Christian Gauss Award
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
National Book Award for Arts and Letters
National Book Award for Biography
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1918-04-26
dateOfDeath 1999-07-26
educatedAt Harvard University
employer Harvard University
familyName Bate
fieldOfWork English literature
biography
literary criticism
genre biography
literary criticism
givenName Walter
influenced Harold Bloom
influencedBy John Keats
Samuel Johnson
knownFor biographies of Samuel Johnson and John Keats
studies of eighteenth-century English literature
theory of the burden of the past
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
name Walter Jackson Bate
nationality American
notableWork Criticism: The Major Texts
From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England
John Keats
Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats
Samuel Johnson
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet
The Stylistic Development of Keats
occupation biographer
literary critic
professor
placeOfBirth Mankato, Minnesota
placeOfDeath Boston, Massachusetts
positionHeld Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities
sexOrGender male

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