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Sir Jonathan Bate @profbate

Author. Regents Professor @ASU. 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Chair, Hawthornden.org. Latest book: *Mad about Shakespeare*. Teaching LitCrit/Sustainability.

Joined June 2011
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May 17
I like this cover pic. Book out in October in UK, Feb in USA.
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I wrote about book covers on jonathanbate.substack.com
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Pondering (with AI opinion too) why Left-wing intellectuals love right-wing Anthony Powell’s *Dance to the Music of Time* - live now on jonathanbate.substack.com

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I wrote about 2 contrasting Dickensian gardens on jonathanbate.substack.com/p/…

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I like this cover pic. Book out in October in UK, Feb in USA.
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If wondering, it is a detail from fresco in the villa of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii
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I wrote about “The Waste Land” on Jonathanbate.substack.com. @johnhaffenden will probably dissent!

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In this piece for @NewStatesman John Keats brushes up against Stormy Daniels. newstatesman.com/culture/poe…

John Keats's embarrassing passion

The poet's love letters to Fanny Brawne have been recovered. Some would rather they'd never been written

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One does begin to wonder about trigger warnings… such as: “This show contains haze, brief blackouts, the use of an e-cigar and mild sexual references.”
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I wrote about Hazlitt on jonathanbate.substack.com
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This is a very good essay - CSL & PP as rival readers of Milton - and always worth hearing that Blake quote from @PhilipPullman. thecritic.co.uk/what-pullman…

What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia | Caleb Woodbridge | The Critic Magazine

“It’s a filthy lie. I hate that. I despise it.” So says Philip Pullman about Narnia to Alex O’Connor on a recent episode of Within Reason, rekindling his long-standing ire against C. S. Lewis.

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I wrote about students, @asu & AI for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/politics/ed…

What my students taught me about AI

I asked my class to tell me if they use programmes like ChatGPT in my course. It made me hopeful

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Mar 16
Dame Harriet Walter and Sir Jonathan Bate to Lead Shakespeare Festival for Prison Leavers broadwayworld.com/article/Da…

Dame Harriet Walter and Sir Jonathan Bate to Lead Shakespeare Festival for Prison Leavers

A weekend of performances, talks and film exploring madness in Shakespeare's plays will take place in the Suffolk coastal town of Aldeburgh this May. Learn more here!

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I wrote about the Wordsworths … and daffodils on jonathanbate.substack.com
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Enjoyed writing this. Paywall. Alas. newstatesman.com/culture/boo…

In defence of Ulysses

James Joyce knew that the epic is not the exclusive property of warriors and kings

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Excellent post. Like Lord Byron, I’ve always had exceptional fondness for the em dash. Leave the em-dash alone - by Colin Gorrie deadlanguagesociety.com/p/em…

Leave the em-dash alone

This writing panic has a 500-year precedent

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I like that 3 of the Italian rugby players appear to be called cannelloni, biscotti and limoncello.
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I’ve written about young John Milton on my substack. open.substack.com/pub/jonath…

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I’ve updated my old London Times essay about the poetry of @taylorswift13 & posted it on my substack- jonathanbate.substack.com
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I’ve written on my Substack about @emeraldfennell #WutheringHeights. Loved it! Thoughts (and #Plath / #TedHughes connections) here: jonathanbate.substack.com/p/…

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I’m starting a Substack - on all matters literary, especially Shakespearean. First post debunks the idea of the Aristotelian “tragic flaw”. And there will in due course be something quite experimental there … please subscribe - totally free. Jonathanbate.substack.com

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