Bate, W. Jackson

Bate, W. Jackson

▪ American biographer
in full  Walter Jackson Bate 
born May 23, 1918, Mankato, Minn., U.S.
died July 26, 1999, Boston, Mass.

      American author and literary biographer known for his studies of the English writers John Keats (Keats, John) and Samuel Johnson (Johnson, Samuel).

      Educated at Harvard University, Bate taught history and literature there from 1946 to 1986 and was chairman of the department of English from 1956 to 1962.

      In 1945 the Modern Language Association published Bate's Stylistic Development of Keats; his full-length biography John Keats (1963) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1964. In 1955 The Achievement of Samuel Johnson was awarded the Gauss Prize for literary history and criticism. Samuel Johnson (1977), a colourful 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 on 1978.

      Bate's other works include From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (1946) and Coleridge (1968).

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