Author. Regents Professor @ASU. Chair: Hawthornden Foundation & Wordsworth Grasmere. Teaching Literature & Sustainability.
AZ/Oxon
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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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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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Claude and I wrote about “The Plagiarist of Jesus College Cambridge” on jonathanbate.substack.com
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I wrote about the naughty Elizabethan doctor Simon Forman on Jonathanbate.substack.com
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I revisited Julie Taylor’s magnificent Titus Andronicus film on jonathanbate.substack.com
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Sir Jonathan Bate retweeted
Ben Stokes gets a wicket just moments after the news broke that he is retiring from international cricket 😲🚨
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This is truly remarkable.
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At jonathanbate.substack.com I’ve asked whether the advent of AI is the fulfillment of Roland Barthes’s idea of the death of the author.
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