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English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
37.99 NZD
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
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
49.99 NZD
Category: Literature | 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: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Romeo and Juliet by Jonathan Eric; Bate Rasmussen
21.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: RSC Shakespeare
From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of the most famous of all love stories THIS EDITION INCLUDES: / An illuminating introduction to Romeo and Juliet by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate / The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page / A helpful scene-by- ...Show more
Soul of the Age - The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
70.00 NZD
Category: History | 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: History
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
Ted Hughes - the Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
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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