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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth's radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ' ...Show more
Soul of the Age - The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$70.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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: NZ non-fiction
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
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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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