Word: bate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bate Becomes Lowell Professor...
Critics, says Walter Jackson Bate, are most fond of authors with complex styles. By this standard Horace is the perfect subject, since an inflected language gave him almost total liberty with word placement, and an ingrown poetic tradition furnished him with limitless chances for allusion. Commager nimbly unravels the syntax and shows how it functions artistically, indeed visually, throughout the odes. He is extremely alert to Horace's sophisticated manipulstion of such literary conventions as the pastoral and the spring song. Horace, as Commager proves, used these stock patterns as the basis for subtle and ambivalent statements about love...
...Bate, Chairman of the Department of English, would not confirm or deny the report, but other members of the Department have said that the 45-year-old poet has accepted a position here. Lowell delivered a reading from his poetry here in December and attended a reception in his honor at the Advocate, at which there was talk about his appointment...
...prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated by the announced retirement of Archibald MacLeish, will probably not be filled within the next two years, according to W. J. Bate, Chairman of the Department of English...
...Bate said that the Administration is normally not reluctant to leave important chairs vacant during an extended period in order to find the right occupant. MacLeish retires officially this June, but will devote the Spring term to his own writing, as he had done for several years...