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Sir Jonathan Bate

@profbate

Author. Regents Professor @ASU. Chair: Hawthornden Foundation & Wordsworth Grasmere. Teaching Literature & Sustainability.

 AZ/Oxon
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Joined June 2011
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I like this cover pic. Book out in October in UK, Feb in USA.
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I wrote about #Middlemarch @TheRSC on jonathanbate.substack.com
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The TLS@TheTLSOct 23
The story of gardens and their cultural significance the-tls.com/politics-society…
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William Collins Books@WmCollinsBooksOct 22
From the Garden of Eden to Gethsemane, the garden has always been far more than somewhere to grow things. It is where humanity has worked out its relationship with the natural world. 🪴THE GARDEN by @profbate is out today! 🌻
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Starting a new project on the language of Queen Elizabeth I. She uses a lot of triplets & “not…but” antitheses. Should I run her speeches through Pangram to check for AI assistance?
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Expressing “doubt” at jonathanbate.substack.com - just posted. theguardian.com/culture/2026…
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Somewhat niche category but a #1 of sorts?
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Under Loughrigg
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Thank you @thetls
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This week, David E. Cooper on a mammoth history of the garden; Larry Wolff takes in Macbeth at the Met. the-tls.com/regular-features…
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Wordsworth’s skates that hissed along the polished ice and cut across the reflex of a star
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Agree with @simon_schama - so is this their finest sketch or would that be the philosophers’ football match?
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so brilliant
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Lovely morning filming promotional video for *The Garden* in Oxford Botanic Garden @obgha which features in the book from @wmcollinsbooks - its history & literary associations
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First stop on *The Garden* book tour @clivedenlitfest
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Should I reply on his behalf?
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Reading proofs of Botanic Gardens chapter of my new book I wonder whether @PhilipPullman consciously or unconsciously has Lyra echoing Sebastian Flyte.
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Proof reading US edn of *The Garden*. Many lovely colour pics but this b/w image makes me laugh.
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Interviewed by @Jacinta_Parsons for her docu about the amazing Liz Hicklin, whose importance in the life of Ted Hughes I greatly underestimated in my bio. Hope Liz’s debut play at age of 95, *Sylvia Plath stole my boyfriend*, is a triumph.
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Rewatched 2001 last night. Hal’s behavior seems very prescient. Life imitates art?
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Had drought & hose ban killed my euonymus hedge or if I cut right back might it regrow?
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Few places more beautiful than this.
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I am getting sucked down the AI rabbit hole. I asked Claude to write a poem about itself in the style of Geoffrey Hill.
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