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  • Ted Hughes

    The Unauthorised Life

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    An illuminating and authoritative study of the 20th-century English poet and children's writer's life and work.Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter-writer since John Keats. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bright Star, Green Light

    The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    An immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures: John Keats and F. Scott FitzgeraldIn this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately—on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres—but whose lives uncannily echoed.Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Radical Wordsworth

    The Poet Who Changed the World

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his agePublished in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Soul of the Age

    A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    “One man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects ... Read more

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  • English Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ted Hughes

    The Unauthorised Life

    by Jonathan Bate ...

    $12.49 USD

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  • The Garden

    Our Four-Thousand-Year Quest for Paradise

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden—from antiquity to presentGardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia and explores their enduring influence on art, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. Just as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • How the Classics Made Shakespeare

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Series series E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
    From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare’s imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having “small Latin and less Greek.” But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • John Clare

    A Biography

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    "A fascinating insight into a man for whom poetry was, like his life, a mixture of discord and harmony." — Independent on SundayJohn Clare (1793–1864) is the greatest laboring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Garden

    Our Four-Thousand-Year Quest for Paradise

    by Jonathan Bate ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours

    A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden—from antiquity to presentGardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia and explores their enduring influence on art, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. Just as the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    PRE-ORDER

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Radical Wordsworth

    The Poet Who Changed the World

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 5 min

    On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age.Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Bright Star, Green Light

    The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Narrated by Paul Hilliar ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    An immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures: John Keats and F. Scott FitzgeraldIn this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately—on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres—but whose lives uncannily echoed.Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook