Background
Walter Jackson Bate was born on May 23, 1918, in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. He was the son of William G. and Isabel (Melick) Bate.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
In 1939, Bate received Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, Master of Arts in 1940, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1942.
(The letters of Keats have elicited con siderable study an...)
The letters of Keats have elicited con siderable study and analysis, particularly during the last two or three decades. The attention has been well bestowed. For few poets have been gifted with a more pene trating insight into the workings of their art than that which Keats possessed; and, with the exception of a few marginal annotations, the entire body of Keats's criticism is to be found only in his letters.
https://www.amazon.com/Negative-Capability-Intuitive-Approach-Classic/dp/1527702227/?tag=2022091-20
1939
(In this brief but comprehensive history of literary criti...)
In this brief but comprehensive history of literary criticism, Prof. Bate analyzes in detail the work of 8 major critics, each of whom is particularly representative of a given period and who have all continued to exercise an influence on Western literary thought and practice.
https://www.amazon.com/Prefaces-criticism-Doubleday-anchor-books/dp/B0007DKXQG/?tag=2022091-20
1959
(The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the s...)
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 sense of the words. In this authoritative biography-the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years--the man and the poet are portrayed with rare insight and sympathy.
https://www.amazon.com/John-Keats-Walter-Jackson-Bate/dp/0674478258/?tag=2022091-20
1961
Walter Jackson Bate was born on May 23, 1918, in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. He was the son of William G. and Isabel (Melick) Bate.
In 1939, Bate received Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, Master of Arts in 1940, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1942.
Bate served as chairman of the history and literature department and completed two stints as chair of the English department. Bate’s classes drew hundreds of students, and he spent his entire career at Harvard, retiring in 1986. He was named both the Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of humanities and the Kingsley Porter university professor, Harvard’s highest rank. After he retired from Harvard Bate continued to write, completing Harvard Scholars in English in 1991, and serving as a contributing editor to other works.
(The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the s...)
1961(The letters of Keats have elicited con siderable study an...)
1939(In this brief but comprehensive history of literary criti...)
1959Bate was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.