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    The Complete Poems

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    Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell’s ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The…

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    John Clare

    Jonathan Bate

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

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream (gift edition)

    This new edition of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by actor, writer and comedian Marc Wootton, who played Bottom…

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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