...Harold Bloom Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 KEATS AND ROMANTICISM By HAROLDBLOOM Both volumes under discussion here are monumental works,l but Bate’s is assuredly a definitive achievement, and Jack’s only a very...

...Andrew Hui How the Classics Made Shakespeare . By Jonathan Bate . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xiv + 361 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 How the Classics Made Shakespeare is a solid synthesis of the best work done in classical...

... respectability and benevolence, precari- ously conflicted with his “nosing every nettle,” his spirited forays into unexplored territory, his frequent attempts to annex areas that he knew to be outside the pale of the Ottery vicarage, symbol of reli- gious orthodoxy. And yet, as Walter Jackson Bate...

...Lawrence J. Zillman Walter Jackson Bate. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, Revolving Fund Series XIII, 1945. Pp. xi + 214. $3.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 128 Reviews Bolingbroke, a knowledge of it will contribute very...

...Kate Rigby The Song of the Earth . By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University Press, 2001. vii + 616 pp...

... on the provenance and transmission of some of our cherished English dramatic texts. Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University The Song of the Earth. By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. “Ecology,” Ariel Salleh observes, “reframes...

... Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. “Ecology,” Ariel Salleh observes, “reframes history.”1 As Jonathan Bate demonstrates in The Song of the Earth, this is no less true in literary studies than it is in political and social history. Bate, best known for his work...

... Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. “Ecology,” Ariel Salleh observes, “reframes history.”1 As Jonathan Bate demonstrates in The Song of the Earth, this is no less true in literary studies than it is in political and social history. Bate, best known for his work...

... Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. “Ecology,” Ariel Salleh observes, “reframes history.”1 As Jonathan Bate demonstrates in The Song of the Earth, this is no less true in literary studies than it is in political and social history. Bate, best known for his work...

... on the provenance and transmission of some of our cherished English dramatic texts. Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University The Song of the Earth. By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. “Ecology,” Ariel Salleh observes, “reframes...

...Louise Dauner Esther Willard Bates. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Library, 1944. Pp. iv + 35. $2.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Harold E. Briggs 361 figures as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Meredith, and rightly does...

... to assemble a similar collection distinguished by equal critical insight and felicity of expression. Lours I. BREDVOLD University of Michigan The Stylistic Development of Keats. By WALTERJACKSON BATE. New York: The Modern Language Association of America...

... (that of Finney). I do not question Mr. Bate’s privilege to depart from the findings of his predecessors, but I do question his right to do so without justify- ing his position. These matters (and there are many other details of the type on which arguments could be based) are mentioned not because...

..., when it took a downward turn. It rebounded in the 1980s, his reach now wider than ever. “Shakespeare has become a global icon,” Jonathan Bate ( 2014 ) wrote on the playwright’s 450th birthday. As of May 2019 the MLA International Bibliography contains 48,015 items about Shakespeare, nearly four times...

.... Beach’s Romantic View. HAROLDE. BRICCS University of Minnesota Edwin Arlington Robinson and His Manuscripts. By ESTHERWIL- LARD BATES. Waterville, Maine : Colby College Library, 1944. Pp. iv + 35. $2.00. In an engaging 32-page memoir...

... Gilbert Waterhouse, The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1914). 2 London, 1681, pp. ii and 749, small folio. William Bates, D.D. (1625-1699), was called the silver-tongued and was one of the most important of the non- conformist divines...

... Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 BOOKS RECEIVED AMERICAN Bates, Esther Willard. Edwin Arlington Robinson and His Manuscripts. Waterville, Maine : Colby College Monograph, No. 11, 1944. Pp. 32. 250...

... the dramatic situation of the teller the story in Chaucer has the charm of a myth suddenly brought to life. Although disclaiming at first any opinion of her own and referring modestly to 2Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. W. Garrod (Oxford, 1939), p. 191. a Walter Jackson Bate summarizes...

... as for the general reader. Based on many years of contact with Robinson, if it does not conclusively answer some inevitable critical problems, it does provide “leads” which are more than usually suggestive. In genial reminiscence, Miss Bates, who, after 1913, was Robin- son’s chief Peterborough...

... it, and leaves the vacuity he found.”5 Walter Jackson Bate, elevating vacillation to the status of a virtue, has more recently praised Johnson for the dialectical qualities of his moral writings.6 I shall be following Hazlitt’s lead for the time being, not because of his greater understanding...