New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: New York ; Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.

New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: New York ; Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.

Ted Hughes: 'New Selected Poems'

Ted Hughes: 'New Selected Poems' PDF Author: Neil Roberts
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN: 1847603106
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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A brilliant new study guide to perhaps the finest English poet of the 20th Century, by a distinguished critic and scholar. This book opens with a section on Hughes's life, including an authoritative treatment of the relationship with Sylvia Plath and the effect of her suicide on his poetry and reputation, followed by a review of Hughes's artistic strategies, his poetic language, and influences on his work, including his openness to mythology and the poets of Eastern Europe. The body of the study guide offers an approach to reading New Selected Poems (1995), taking in turn each of the remarkable and remarkably varied works from which the poems were selected—The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal, Wodwo, Crow, Cave Birds, Season Songs, Gaudete, Remains of Elmet, Moortown Diary, River and Wolfwatching. It concludes with a review of Hughes's reception, and a six-page bibliography.

Birthday Letters

Birthday Letters PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

Letters of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571262945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to others. It is a fascinatingly detailed picture of a mind of genius as it evolved through an incomparably eventful life and career.

Simplify Me When I'm Dead

Simplify Me When I'm Dead PDF Author: Keith Douglas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571230385
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Part of Faber's critically acclaimed Poet to Poet series

Collected Poems for Children

Collected Poems for Children PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571215027
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth? and ending with Season Songs, which Hughes remarked was written 'within hearing' of children. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit, gentleness and humanity of these poems and make this a book any reader - child and adult - will return to again and again.

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes PDF Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062643703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain’s most important poets. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children’s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry. Hughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes’s inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. His book offers, for the first time, the full story of Hughes’s life as it was lived, remembered, and reshaped in his art.

Selected Translations

Selected Translations PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. Throughout a long and intensely productive career, Hughes was continuously engaged in acts of translation, for the page and for the stage, starting with his role in the establishment of the annual Poetry International in London and the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, which he co-founded with Daniel Weissbort in 1965, and which notably brought to attention poets such as the Israeli Yehuda Amichai, the Hungarian Janos Pilinszky and the Yugoslav Vasko Popa. The present volume, edited by Weissbort, surveys this aspect of Hughes's canon for the first time, offering a broad selection from his numerous translations, together with hitherto unpublished material (versions of Paul Eluard, or of Yves Bonnefoy), and excerpts from essays and letters. Strongly rooted in a native tradition, Hughes was nevertheless indebted to literary cultures other than his own, and his work far transcends national boundaries. The present volume selects from his versions from a wide variety of ancient texts - the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Aeschylus, Euripides, Ovid, Seneca, Racine - and equally from a range of twentieth century European poets and dramatists.

Poetry in the Making

Poetry in the Making PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Ted Hughes Bestiary

A Ted Hughes Bestiary PDF Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301452
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals - all concentratedly coming about their business. The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes's achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to 'those that have the wildest tunes.'