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Walter J. Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, has won this year's Christian Gauss Award, for his book John Keats. Phi Beta Kappa presented the award to him at a dinner in Washington Friday.
John Keats' selection over 67 other entrants makes Bate the only person to have won the award twice. He received it in 1955 for The Achievement of Samuel Johnson.
In making the award, Phi Beta Kappa called Bate's Book "a thoroughly disciplined study." "A freshness of approach to what we already knew," it continued, "make the whole read like a tale newly told. Nothing is trivial, nothing extraneous."
Bate's study of Keats has already won the Pultizer Prize for biography and the Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press.
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