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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful And Damned Lives Of John Keats And F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 Literature : A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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 ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
$38.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$49.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Ser.
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. S ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Soul of the Age - The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
In this stunning new biography, Jonathan Bate weaves an exhilarating tapestry of the Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues that shaped and informed Shakespeare's mind. In the midst of this extraordinary, colourful and often violent world, he traces Shakespeare's va ...Show more
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 earl and a king? And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned? Weaving a dazzling tapestry of Elizabethan b ...Show more
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems To Ease The Mind by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
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
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind by Jonathan Bate
$36.99 NZD
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.
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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
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