Sir Jonathan Bate

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

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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 2 contrasting Dickensian gardens on https://t.co/KDiQEePhMK

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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 like this cover pic. Book out in October in UK, Feb in USA.

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@prixpics Alas, no - it’s Mark Wormald at Pembroke. I don’t fish!

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@JoyceCarolOates Paul de Man?

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I wrote about “The Waste Land” on https://t.co/0kOUqOkLEw. @johnhaffenden will probably dissent!

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@purplcabbage @olivertraldi Perfectly possible that LLM reviewed a large body of existing scholarship in the field and used that to provide constructive criticism- LLMs can trawl the web as well as regurgitate from training data. They can function as glorified google or virtual research assistant.

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In this piece for @NewStatesman John Keats brushes up against Stormy Daniels. https://t.co/r1GWLl24Cm

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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 https://t.co/iceaHtz1gu

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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. https://t.co/wV6BNPCIXZ

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@JosephBottum The English Patient.

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@snailco27 @JoyceCarolOates And it is not only good but broadly true.

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I wrote about students, @asu & AI for @NewStatesman https://t.co/JAMvwzfQPJ

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Dame Harriet Walter and Sir Jonathan Bate to Lead Shakespeare Festival for Prison Leavers
https://t.co/P1gPRUp7My

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I wrote about the Wordsworths … and daffodils on https://t.co/iceaHtz1gu

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@TedIacobuzio Because people were slagging it off on this platform! To respond to that was the commission. I wrote about how V Woolf attacked it at the time.

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Enjoyed writing this. Paywall. Alas. https://t.co/aDwRo8MoAE

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@stevenpoole Quite so. The alas was regret at it not being one of those free taster pieces that encourages people to subscribe - that’s a model I like.

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@EdwardQuine Byron loved a bit of vulgarity—comes of being a Lord!

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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 https://t.co/V4xollbe17