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    Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

    Jonathan Bate

    ‘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…

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    Invisible Strings

    Kristie Frederick Daugherty

    An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including former US Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, internet fan favourites and cult…

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    English Romantic Poets

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    ‘All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings’ -William Wordsworth

    No generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and…

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    Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

    Sir Jonathan Bate

    How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom’s dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare’s plays lead to the deaths of an…

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    Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

    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 age

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    The Song of the Earth

    Jonathan Bate

    In the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among nature, culture, and environment and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the…

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    Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Jonathan Bate

    An immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Genius of Shakespeare: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Jonathan Bate

    This fascinating book by one of Britain’s most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world’s most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and…

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    Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Jonathan Bate

    A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES

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    Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

    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 age

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    How the Classics Made Shakespeare

    Jonathan Bate

    This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of…

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    Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals): Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition

    Jonathan Bate

    In identifying Wordsworth’s interest in nature as a vital, ecological interest, and linking it with the ecological debate in political history, this study attempts to define the politics of poetry…

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    Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals): Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition

    Jonathan Bate

    In identifying Wordsworth’s interest in nature as a vital, ecological interest, and linking it with the ecological debate in political history, this study attempts to define the politics of poetry…

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    English Romantic Poets

    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…

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    John Clare

    Jonathan Bate

    The definitive biography of John Clare – the poet’s poet – from Jonathan Bate

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    Song of the Earth

    Jonathan Bate

    A work of literary criticism that may become - deserves to become - the most influential of its time’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

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    Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

    Jonathan Bate

    Soul of the Age is the most artful, intriguing, and satisfying study of the mind of William Shakespeare we now possess … A major achievement from a master of Shakespeare…

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    The Genius of Shakespeare

    Jonathan Bate

    ‘Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging… Bate writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, with and enthusiasm.’ - Daily Telegraph

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    How the Classics Made Shakespeare

    Jonathan Bate

    This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of…

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    Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

    Jonathan Bate

    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…

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    Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

    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 age.

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    Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Jonathan Bate

    A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES

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    Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

    Jonathan Bate

    ‘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…

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    Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

    Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick UK)

    A biography of poet Ted Hughes that includes … new information about his relationship with Sylvia Plath, written while consulting the just-opened Hughes archives in the British Library and at…

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    Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

    Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick UK)

    A biography of poet Ted Hughes that includes … new information about his relationship with Sylvia Plath, written while consulting the just-opened Hughes archives in the British Library and at…

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    The Public Value of the Humanities

    Why should governments invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy or philosophical conundrums? Does such research deliver ‘value for money’ and ‘public benefit’? In this book a group…

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    The Public Value of the Humanities

    Why should governments invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy or philosophical conundrums? Does such research deliver ‘value for money’ and ‘public benefit’? In this book a group…

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    Shakespeare: staging the world

    Jonathan Bate,Dora Thornton

    Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional creative imaginations in history.

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    Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind

    Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.

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    Shakespeare’s Britain

    Jonathan Bate,Dora Thornton

    From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare’s audience - revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at…

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    I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare

    John Clare

    This is the first anthology of the great peasant poet’s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers…

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    Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

    Eric Toensmeier,Jonathan Bates

    When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces…

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb: Be not Afraid

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this children’s book series that teaches kids how to overcome problems by leaning and depending on God and His Word.

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb: Be not Afraid

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this children’s book series that teaches kids how to overcome problems by leaning and depending on God and His Word.

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb: This is the Day that the Lord has made

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this Christian book series that teaches children bible verses. In every book Jo-Jo shares the truth of Jesus Christ with his audience…

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb: This is the Day that the Lord has made

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this Christian book series that teaches children bible verses. In every book Jo-Jo shares the truth of Jesus Christ with his audience…

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this children's book series that teaches kids how to overcome problems by leaning and depending on God and His Word.

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    Jo-Jo the Lamb

    Jonathan Bates

    Jo-Jo the Lamb is the star character in this children's book series that teaches kids how to overcome problems by leaning and depending on God and His Word.

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    English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    Jonathan Bate (Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick)

    English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of…

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    Selected Poetry of John Clare

    John Clare

    John Clare was the great Romantic ‘peasant poet’ - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the…

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    William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

    Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA),Jonathan Bate (University of Oxford, Oxford)

    Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as…

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Eric Rasmussen,Jonathan Bate,William Shakespeare

    From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare’s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the…

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    Sonnets and Other Poems

    Eric Rasmussen,Jonathan Bate,William Shakespeare

    From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s much-loved sonnets and poems. Ideal for students and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere, the RSC editions offer a fresh…

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    Hamlet

    Jonathan Bate,Eric Rasmussen,Eric Rasmussen,William Shakespeare

    The first edition of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy to be developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, this book includes unique material to help the reader understand and enjoy…

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    Much Ado About Nothing

    Eric Rasmussen,Jonathan Bate,William Shakespeare

    This fresh edition of one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies offers new insights into the play on the page and in performance, offering interviews with directors Nicholas Hytner and Marianne…

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