In this little book is one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. About the Editors: Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. A Man Booker Prize judge in 2014. He studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He has been King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He is married to author and biographer Paula Byrne. He has also written one novel, The Cure for Love. Born in Birkenhead, Paula Byrne has a PhD from the University of Liverpool where she is a Fellow in English Literature. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Theatre, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize. Her second book, Perdita, was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick. Her Mad World was a Sunday Times bestseller. A regular contributor to the 'Times Literary Supplement', she lives in Warwickshire with her two children and husband, critic and biographer Jonathan Bate. |