Author. Regents Professor @ASU. Chair: Hawthornden Foundation & Wordsworth Grasmere. Teaching Literature & Sustainability.
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Sir Jonathan Bate retweeted
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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Thank you @thetls
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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Agree with @simon_schama - so is this their finest sketch or would that be the philosophers’ football match?
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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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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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