Browse by category
English Literature : A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
$19.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | 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
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
'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
$24.99 AUD
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
Selected Poetry of John Clare by BATE JONATHAN
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, ...Show more
Soul of the Age - The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
$26.95 AUD
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
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 AUD
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 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
0 - 7 of 8