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Walter Jackson Bate
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| Born | May 23, 1918 Mankato, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 1999 (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) |
| Genre | Literary criticism, biography |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize National Book Award |
Walter Jackson Bate (born May 23, 1918 – died July 26, 1999) was an American writer. He was known for writing about books and the lives of famous people. He won important awards like the Pulitzer Prize for his books about Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). His book Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.
About Walter Jackson Bate
Walter Bate was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He studied at Harvard University, a famous school. Later, he became a professor there, teaching students about literature.
He was a very respected writer. His books about poets like Keats and Johnson were not just for scholars. Many people enjoyed reading them because they were so well-written.
Walter Bate was chosen to be a member of important groups. These included the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. These groups recognize people who have done great things in their fields.
He stopped teaching at Harvard in 1986. Walter Bate passed away in Boston in 1999 when he was 81 years old.
Major Books by Walter Bate
Here are some of the main books Walter Jackson Bate wrote:
- Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1939)
- From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (1946)
- Criticism: The Major Texts (edited by Bate, 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)
