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The Achievement of Ted Hughes

Author : Keith Sagar
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719009391

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The Poetry of Ted Hughes

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137310941

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The Poetry of Ted Hughes by Sandie Byrne Pdf

This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

Ted Hughes in Context

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108425550

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Ted Hughes in Context by Terry Gifford Pdf

Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is complimented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In addition, Hughes made important contributions to education, literary history, emergent environmentalism and debates about life writing. Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of the works, and conceptualize Hughes's work within long-standing critical traditions while acknowledging a new awareness of his future importance. This collection offers consideration not only of the most important aspects of Hughes's work, but also the most neglected.

A Ted Hughes Bestiary

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374715434

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A Ted Hughes Bestiary by Ted Hughes Pdf

“Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world.” —Seamus Heaney Originally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions—between them and us—but Ted Hughes’s poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. In A Ted Hughes Bestiary, 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 going about their business. In Poetry in the Making, Hughes said that he thought of his poems as animals, meaning that he wanted them to have “a vivid life of their own.” Distilled and self-defining, A Ted Hughes Bestiary is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes’s achievement, while offering room to overlooked poems, and “to those that have the wildest tunes.”

The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521197526

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The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford Pdf

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

Ted Hughes Single Tape

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0001056301

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Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected

Author : M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137276582

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Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected by M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford Pdf

Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.

The Elegies of Ted Hughes

Author : E. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230281417

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The Elegies of Ted Hughes by E. Hadley Pdf

The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify. Encompassing a broad range of themes, from the decline of nature and local industry to the national grief caused by the First World War, this book is a comprehensive addition to the study of Hughes' poetry.

Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes

Author : Ewa Panecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527510319

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Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes by Ewa Panecka Pdf

This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.

Englishness and Post-imperial Space

Author : Milton Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443888349

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Englishness and Post-imperial Space by Milton Sarkar Pdf

Englishness and Post-imperial Space: The Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes probes into the English mindset immediately after the British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected contemporary poetry, particularly that of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Frustration and disillusionment, even anger, characterised the era and many of the literary works the period produced. Most writers became insular and were obsessed with the ‘English’ elements in their writing. The great, international and cosmopolitan themes (of Eliot, for instance) were replaced by those of narrow domestic importance. It is in such a context, this book argues, that Larkin and Hughes returned to the old England, most notably to the themes of gradually vanishing pristine landscape and national myths and legends, to the archetypal English customs and conventions. It examines their poetry mainly from the perspective of Englishness, a burgeoning area of academic interest. Intricately connected with the values emanating from England as a geographical and socio-cultural space, Englishness as a concept is intrinsic to the identity of a people who gradually became globally powerful. The loss of empire dealt a severe blow to this sense of the self. This book explores the dynamics of the representation of this sense of loss and the frustration it produced in the poems of Larkin and Hughes.

Ted Hughes

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746310038

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Ted Hughes by Susan Bassnett Pdf

This new study of the work of Ted Hughes traces the stages of his development as a poet, from his powerful early collection, The Hawk in the Rain to his last award-winning translations. Hughes is seen as a complex, multi-faceted writer, a great poet in the tradition of English nature poetry, who also sought inspiration from international sources, ancient and modern. His lifelong concern for language and his use of mythology and history are explored, while his poetic achievements are examined in context, together with his writing for children and his experiments with forms of theatre.

Ted Hughes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134384341

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Ted Hughes

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062643704

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Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate Pdf

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.

Ted Hughes

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137301130

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Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford Pdf

This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the 20th century. In twelve new essays, international authorities on Hughes examine and debate his work, shedding new light on familiar texts. Split into two parts, the first half of this book examines Hughes' work through cultural contexts, such as postmodernism and the carnivalesque, while the second part uses literary theories including postcolonialism, ecocriticism and trauma theory to interpret his poetry. Providing fresh inspiration and insights into the various diverse ways in which Hughes' writing can be interpreted, this volume is an ideal introduction to both literary theory and the work of Ted Hughes for literature students and scholars alike.

Ted Hughes and Trauma

Author : Danny O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137557926

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Ted Hughes and Trauma by Danny O'Connor Pdf

This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody handprint on his essay, warning him of the dangers of literary criticism. Hereafter, criticism became ‘burning the foxes’. This book offers a defence of literary criticism, drawing Hughes’ poetry and prose into the network of theoretical work he dismissed as ‘the tyrant’s whisper’ by demonstrating a shared concern with trauma. Covering a wide range of Hughes’ work, it explores the various traumas that define his writing. Whether it is comparing his idea of man as split from nature with that of Jacques Lacan, considering his challenging relationship with language in light of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, seeing him in the art gallery and at the movies with Gilles Deleuze, or considering his troubled relationship with femininity in regard to Teresa Brennan and Slavoj Žižek, Burning the Foxes offers a fresh look at a familiar poet.