https://vegasharmon.com/authors/jonathan-bate/ Recent content in Jonathan Bate on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/think-yourself-into-the-moment/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/think-yourself-into-the-moment/ Think yourself into the moment. Touch, smell and listen to the thing you are writing about. Turn yourself into it. Then you will have it. That, for Hughes, was the essence of poetry.