Word: bated
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W.Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, yesterday received a 1978 National Book Award for his biography "Samuel Johnson...
Calling the award "a great honor," Bate said yesterday, "I've won other awards before, but never this...
...Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, read passages from the Bible, noting the Lowell had taught a class on the King James Version...
Friends of the late poet, including many Faculty members, will participate in a memorial service open to the public at Memorial Church, at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Walter Jackson Bate, Lowell Professor of the Humanities; Monroe Engel '42, senior lecturer on English; Robert S. Fitzgerald '33, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; and David D. Perkins '51, Marquand Professor of English and American Literature, will be among those to discuss Lowell's life and read from his works at the services sponsored by the English Department...
...Bate's Johnson is not without its faults. His overreliance on Freud can become tiresome, and he tends to belabor his evidence. But his commentaries on Johnson's mind are unfailingly ingenious. The severe breakdown Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated...