Word: bate
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Walter Jackson Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, has won the Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press this year for his book John Keats. The $2000 prize honors the most distinguished manuscript submitted by a Harvard scholar during the year...
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Walter Jackson Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography John Keats. The prize, carrying a stipend of $500, was announced in New York yesterday...
...Bate's book, published early last fall by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, was quickly recognized by critics and scholars as the definitive biography of Keats. It represents a twenty-five year study of Keats on Bate's part, beginning with his undergraduate thesis, Negative Capability, published in 1939. Archibald MacLeish, the last Harvard professor to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Collected Poems in 1953) commented that "more than any other English poet John Keats needs a biographer who can understand him as a man. The great importance of W.J. Bate's book is the proof it offers...
...Lewis will give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard next year. Walter J. Bate '39, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, said last night. Day Lewis is former professor of Poetry at Oxford University and one of Britain's noted contemporary poets...