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The Garden: Our 4,000-Year Quest for Paradise
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Are gardens your happy place? JONATHAN BATE has your number with his book THE GARDEN
The Garden – Jonathan Bate From the biblical Garden Of Eden to New York’s High Line via the pleasure gardens of Versailles, Jonathan Bate’s The Garden is a lavishly illustrated and exhaustive telling of our relationship with gardens over four millennia, and the pleasure that they bring to ourselves and communities. After all, regularly visiting a green space or being surrounded by one is a tried and tested way to assist one’s promote mental wellbeing.
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Radiohead, Grand Theft Auto and an American barbecue — Hamlet enters its weirdest phase yet
This month a rather unusual theatre show will open in Manchester.
Shakespeare’s First Folio Revisited: Quadricentennial Essays
En 1623, siete años después de la muerte de Shakespeare, John Heminges y Henry Condell publicaron Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies, obra conocida como el First Folio, en la que se imprimen por primera vez piezas tan famosas como Macbeth, La tempestad, Cuento de invierno, La fierecilla domada y la Comedia de los errores, con notas de ambos editores.
Anna Akhmatova revisited — Jonathan Bate
“Poetry is respected only in this country,’’ wrote Osip Mandelstam, “people are killed for it. There’s no place where more people are killed for it.’’ In modern America, where poetry struggles even to retain its place in the school curriculum, it is singularly instructive to hear such voices from Soviet Russia. Especially at a time when once again Russian tyranny is rearing its head and bringing death, destruction and misery to thousands.
Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea - IMDiversity
By: Jonathan Bate, Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video hoped viewers would recognize the allusion to the author of one of the most influential...
Shakespeare's Reception
Before we get to the books, could you tell me what Shakespeare reception is? When I studied English literature at high school in the late 1980s it didn’t come up at all, but when I talk to students now, ‘reception’ seems to be a big thing. The idea of reception comes from Classics. Classical reception is the study of Classical texts not in their own period, but the way that they have been deployed and reinterpreted.
Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea
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Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea
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When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video hoped viewers would recognize the allusion to the author of one of the most influential and widely read oceanic novels of all time, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” There are indeed...
Living a ‘Nature-Positive’ Life: An Old Idea Attracts New Followers
As a researcher in the humanities and author of “Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World,” I see nature positivity as a welcome revival of an outlook that English poet William Wordsworth and other Romantics proposed in the late 1700s. Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. By Jonathan Bate Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is exploring a new venue: U.S. national parks.
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today’s idea of a nature-positive life
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is exploring a new venue: U.S. national parks. In a project called Our Common Nature, Ma is performing in settings such as the Great Smoky Mountains and the Grand Canyon. By making music and bringing people together in scenic places, Ma aims to help humans understand where they fit in the natural world.
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today's idea of a nature-positive life
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William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today's idea of a nature-positive life
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is exploring a new venue: U.S. national parks. In a project called Our Common Nature, Ma is performing in settings such as the Great Smoky Mountains and the Grand Canyon. By making music and bringing people together in scenic places, Ma aims to help humans understand where they fit in the natural world.
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today's idea of a nature-positive life
Mick Knapton/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is exploring a new venue: U.S. national parks. In a project called Our Common Nature, Ma is performing in settings such as the Great Smoky Mountains and the Grand Canyon. By making music and bringing people together in scenic places, Ma aims to help humans understand where they fit in the natural world.
Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book
Sticky Header Night Mode Search DEEP DIVE "Satanic Verses" wasn't the first novel to provoke a fanatic who has no grasp of literature's nuances Nikolaus Wostry, head of Film Collections of Filmmarchiv Austria, shows the movie The City Without Jews (Die Stadt Ohne Juden) at Filmarchive Austria in Laxenburg on November 15, 2016. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images) This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages” of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world.
Salman Rushdie no es el primer novelista al que intenta matar alguien que no ha leído su obra
Fotograma de la versión cinematográfica de la profética novela de 1922 de Hugo Bettauer _La ciudad sin judíos_. Barbican Hadi Matar, el hombre acusado del intento de asesinato del novelista Salman Rushdie, admitió que sólo había “leído como dos páginas” de “Los versos satánicos”, la novela de Rushdie de 1988 que enfureció a los musulmanes fundamentalistas de todo el mundo.
Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book
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Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book
Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages” of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims to murder Rushdie in 1989, hadn’t read it at all.
Attack on Rushdie mirrors 1925 killing of writer who satirized Vienna antisemitism - Jonathan Bate
THE CONVERSATION via AP — Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages” of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims to murder Rushdie in 1989, hadn’t read it at all.
Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book
Barbican Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages” of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims to murder Rushdie in 1989, hadn’t read it at all.
Diary: "The key to sustainability is working in harmony with nature"
Tuesday – an invitation arrives from Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council. Would I like to attend the conferment of the freedom of the town upon Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh during this year’s Shakespeare birthday celebrations, when they will also unveil the restored statue of the Bard donated by the great 18th-century actor David Garrick, the first person to receive that honour?
Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders unite to oppose assisted suicide Bill
Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders have united to express their “profound disquiet” at a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. They said the Assisted Dying Bill of crossbench peer Baroness Meacher would put vulnerable people at greater risk of abuse.
A fair attempt but could do better
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel by Martyn Sampson Fordham University Press, £26.99, 304 pages Graham Greene remains synonymous with the phrase “Catholic novel” even as his books are less frequently read than they were in his lifetime and as they lose the central place they once held among the set texts for the study of English Literature in schools and universities.
Working Together
Premium members can listen to this essay: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I recall a scene in the mid 1990s just … This week on Timeless Leadership, the topic is Collaboration. We often think of collaboration as simply doing business. We need to work together with … It's going to be a long road back Become a better leader, communicator, and human with advice and counsel from the past for the issues of today. The past enlightens the present. Learn …
Beauty and the Damned
On 23 February 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in a house beside the Spanish Steps in Rome, aged just 25. As a lover of the Romantic poets and having just published a new biography of William Wordsworth to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth, I decided to spend last year’s lockdown writing about Keats. But I had a problem: there are already half a dozen fine “cradle-to-grave” biographies of him, so we really don’t need another one.
John Keats in the season of mists
On Feb 23, 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome, Italy. James Clark, the resident English doctor who later became physician to Queen Victoria, together with a colleague named Dr Luby and an Italian surgeon, opened the body. They found, in the words of Keats's artist friend Joseph Severn, who had accompanied him on the voyage to Italy and nursed him through his final months, the symptoms of “the worst possible Consumption—the lungs were entirely destroyed—the cells were quite gone”.
The young Milton: A Puritan, a Laudian – or something else entirely? - Catholic Herald
All his life, Michael Foot, the most literary politician of the 20th century, was a passionate supporter of Plymouth Argyle. In the bad old days of hooliganism on the terraces, he attended an away game at Crystal Palace. Like everyone else, he was asked at the turnstile whether he was carrying a dangerous weapon. The leader of the Labour Party surprised the attendant by replying in the affirmative as, with a flourish, he drew a copy of John Milton’s Areopagitica from his pocket.
Don’t break that fiddle
Writers imitate their precursors, consciously or not. Nobody starts from scratch. Even the Homeric poems had traditions behind them. To write is to enter a conversation, to make your own reading into a usable past, to choose the literary company you seek to join, or to beat. A writer, Saul Bellow said, is a reader moved to emulation. The question is not whether to imitate, but what to imitate and how.
Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea
fotograzia via Getty Images When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video hoped viewers would recognize the allusion to the author of one of the most influential and widely read oceanic novels of all time, “20,000 Leagues Under...
In search of ‘English Proust’
Writing to his publisher Gaston Gallimard, Proust opted for an unusually crisp register: “I refuse to let the English destroy my work.” He was protesting at translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s use of a pretty Shakespeare quotation (Remembrance of Things Past) for his analytically more precise title (À la recherche du temps perdu), not to mention the now iconic but misleading Swann’s Way (for Du côté de chez Swann).
Wordsworth: Poet of the Human Heart
William Wordsworth enthralled me when I was a scrawny, brooding boy.
The Girondin Wordsworth · LRB 18 June 2020
John Keats went walking in the Lake District in June 1818. It was the first decent summer since the eruption of an Indonesian volcano three years before had tipped postwar Europe into a crisis of failed harvests, mass hunger and widespread social unrest.
On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth
“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in his poem on the death of fellow poet W. B. Yeats. He was wrong. Sometimes poetry can change the world. William Wordsworth was not merely the most admired English poet of the 19th century: his poetry made many things happen. Locally, the ecology and economy of the vale of Grasmere, and the wider Lake District, were changed as a result of his canonization.
“There Is Everything Here” | Jonathan Bate
On an early June afternoon in 1797 Samuel Taylor Coleridge came down the road to Racedown Lodge from Crewkerne, crossing the county line from Somerset into Dorset. He cut a corner by leaping over a gate and bounding across a field. The gateway is still there, though the gate is now of metal. The field slopes down into the wooded valley.
The poetical is the political
Jonathan Bate offers readers new to Wordsworth a gripping and perceptive account of a great poet in his prime — and the years in which the poet’s fame overtook a sadly diminished talent William Wordsworth (1770-1850) (© Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo) In normal times, Jonathan Bate’s invigorating appraisal of William Wordsworth would have neatly coincided with the opening (after a £6.2 million refurbishment) of Dove Cottage, proudly marking the poet’s 250th anniversary.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham, Ivy Pochoda’s These Women, Jonathan Bate’s Radical Wordsworth, and Maggie Doherty’s The Equivalents all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Article continues after advertisement Fiction 1.
The American Scholar: Radical Elegies -
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Haydon (Wikimedia Commons) Why should we still care about William Wordsworth today, 250 years after his birth? Because he reminds us that we need to care for our children and to cherish a child’s way of looking at the world. Because he wrote with unprecedented sympathy for the poor, the excluded, and the broken.
The mirror of life
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The worst is not, so long as we can say “this is the worst”
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history”, the doctor observes, “yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise”. Even after a few scattered deaths, “the danger still remained fantastically unreal.” “It's impossible it should be the plague, everyone knows it has vanished from the West”, says one character early in the novel, as first the rats and then the people begin to die. “Yes, everyone knew that”, replies the doctor, “except the dead”.
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
For several nights during the Christmas season of 1806, William Wordsworth recited a very long new poem in instalments to the company gathered around the fire: his wife, Mary, his sister, Dorothy, his sister-in-law Sara Hutchinson and his old friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to whom the poem was dedicated.
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