|
Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1964) and John Keats (1978).〔("Biography or Autobiography" ). ''Past winners and finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.〕 ''Samuel Johnson'' also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.〔 ("National Book Awards – 1978" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.〕 Bate was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He studied (under Douglas Bush) and later taught at Harvard University. His critical work, especially ''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'', responds to and anticipates some aspects of the work of Harold Bloom. His biographies of Keats and Johnson have enjoyed extraordinary reputations both as scholarly resources and as works of literature in their own right. Jane Kenyon, one of many writers to be influenced by the Keats biography, paraphrases it in her poem "Reading Late of the Death of Keats": :Clearly I had packed the wrong book in my haste: Keats died, propped up to get more air. Severn straightened the body on the bed, and cut three dampened curls from Keats's head. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf )〕 Bate retired from teaching at Harvard in 1986, and died on July 26, 1999, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, aged 81. A brief memoir appeared in 2013.〔Robert D. Richardson, ''Splendor of Heart: Walter Jackson Bate and the Teaching of Literature; with an interview by John Paul Russo'' (Boston: Godine, 2014).〕 ==Major works== *''Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats'' (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012). *''The Achievement of Samuel Johnson'' (1955). *''From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-century England'' (1961). *''John Keats'' (1963). *''Coleridge'' (1968). *''The Burden of the Past and the English Poet'' (1970). *''Samuel Johnson'' (1977). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Jackson Bate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|