BURDEN OF THE PAST PA - Softcover

Bate Walter Jackson The late Walter Jackson Bate authored several books, including two on Keats as well as Criticism: The Major Texts, From Classic to Romantic, and The Achievement of Samuel Johnson, winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. He was Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard.

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. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet concentrates especially on the period between 1660 and 1830the first period to face the burden of the past on a large scalebut making continual applications to the present day.