The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (Belknap Press)

Biographical note: BateWalter 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, concentrating especially on the period between 1660 and 1830. Preface Contents I The Second Temple II The Neoclassic Dilemma III The Eighteenth-Century Reconsideration Hume and the Essential Diagnosis IV The Third Temple Index The Second Temple -- The Neoclassic Dilemma -- The Eighteenth-century Reconsideration: Hume And The Essential Diagnosis -- The Third Temple. By W. Jackson Bate.