Bate's magisterial biography provides a picture of Johnson as a genius and as a human being, a man whose brilliance was born out of the torment of his mind.
The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty years--the man and the poet are portrayed with ...
In this reissue of a classic work in modern literary criticism, W. Jackson Bate presents a thoughtful and informed investigation of the responses of English writers to the perennial dilemma of modern literature, concentrating especially on the period between 1660 and 1830.
This new paperback edition is a reprint of a classic textbook by the late Walter Jackson Bate, noted literary scholar and two-time Pulitzer prizewinner. It is a collection of important readings in literary criticism from Aristotle to the pre-theory part of the 20th century. No other book currently available provides as worthwhile and ...
Bate's magisterial biography provides a picture of Johnson as a genius and as a human being, a man whose brilliance was born out of the torment of his mind.
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Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good. No DJ. First Edition. No DJ. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Very light, neat scholarly marginalia on Table of contents pages. Clean covers with sharp corners, clean and tight pages, square: a very crisp, sweet copy. read more
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
