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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful And Damned Lives Of John Keats And F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote, 'All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.'John Keats died two hundred years ago, in Febr ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes an "appealing new biography . . . that] illuminates Wordsworth's poetic originality." (Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal) "The finest modern introduction to Wordsworth's] work, life and impact. It shows how and why 'Wordsworth made a difference ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth's radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ' ...Show more
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems To Ease The Mind by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Poetry
In this little book is one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. slight creasing on spine SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom ...Show more
Ted Hughes - the Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Biography
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan ...Show more
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
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Category: Plays | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more
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