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W. Jackson Bate (1918–1999)

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Works by W. Jackson Bate

Samuel Johnson 329 copies, 2 reviews
John Keats 155 copies, 1 review
Criticism: The Major Texts 81 copies, 1 review
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet 56 copies, 2 reviews
From Classic to Romantic : Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England 55 copies
Keats: a collection of critical essays (Editor) 51 copies
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson 46 copies
Coleridge 24 copies, 1 review
Prefaces to Criticism 21 copies
British and American Poets: Chaucer to the Present 15 copies
Negative capability : the intuitive approach in Keats 4 copies
The stylistic development of Keats 4 copies
Storming the main gate: The dictionary, from Samuel Johnson 3 copies
Thomas Hardy : Twentieth Century Views : A Collection of Critical Essays 2 copies

Selected Writings of Edmund Burke 1 copy

Criticism : The Major Texts Enlarged Edition 1 copy

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Biographia Literaria (Editor, some editions) 410 copies
Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler (Editor) 70 copies, 1 review
Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler (Editor, some editions) 23 copies
Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications (Contributor) 7 copies
Edmund Burke, Selected Works (Editor, some editions) 1 copy

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Bate, W. Jackson

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Bate, Walter Jackson

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Birthplace

Mankato, Minnesota, USA

Place of death

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Education

Harvard University

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literary critic

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Harvard University

Awards and honors

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1957)

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Biography -- Harvard University Gazette

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