biography
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Bate, Walter Jackson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Literary critic and educator, born in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. On the Harvard faculty (1946), he became a prominent spokesman for the humanistic literary tradition, resurrected the study of 18th-c English literature, and wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning literary biographies of John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977). |
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