The Poetry Of Ted Hughes

Author : Ted Hughes,Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571222951

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Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes,Simon Armitage Pdf

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Ted Hughes (1930-98) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957. His last collection, Birthday Letters, was published in 1998 and won the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 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behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes’s inner life, which he preserved for posterity.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.

Author : Dr. Paul Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892908

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The Poetry of Ted Hughes by Dr. Paul Bentley Pdf

This text provides a lucid and accessible introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, a major figure in twentieth- century poetry whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with the human mind. It is also the first full length study to place Hughes's poetry in the context of significant developments in literary theory that have occured during his life, drawing in particular on the 'French theorists'- Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Roland Barthes. The study sheds new light on Hughes's prosody, and on such matters as Hughes's relation to the 'Movement' poets, the influence of Sylvia Plath, his relation to Romanticism, his interest in myth and shamanism, and the implications of the Laureateship for his work. The poems are presented in chronological order, tracing the development of Hughes's highly distinctive style. The study also discusses Hughes's recently published non-fiction- Winter Pollen (1994) and Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992). The Poetry of Ted Hughes is indispensable for all students and academics interested in contemporary poetry and culture.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310209

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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.

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1541 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263066

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Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes Pdf

For the first time, the vast canon of the poetry of Ted Hughes - winner of the Whitbread and Forward Prizes and former Poet Laureate - together in a single e-book. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete texts of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales from Ovid as well as those children's poems that Hughes felt crossed over into adult poetry. Most significantly it also includes small press publications and editions that, until now, remain uncollected and have never before been available to a general readership. 'A guardian spirit of the land and language.' Seamus Heaney

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571283866

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River by Ted Hughes Pdf

First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart' and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic rivers, and 'The Gulkana' explores an ancient Alaskan watercourse. At its core the sequence rehearses, in various settings, from winter to winter, the life-cycle of the salmon. All this, too, is stitched into the torn richness, The epic poise That holds him so steady in his wounds, so loyal to his doom, so patient In the machinery of heaven. from 'October Salmon'

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571258888

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Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes Pdf

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. 'To read [ Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of "the bends". It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.' Seamus Heaney 'Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book.' Andrew Motion

Author : Leonard M. Scigaj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015010397589

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The Poetry of Ted Hughes by Leonard M. Scigaj Pdf

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262953

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Moortown Diary by Ted Hughes Pdf

Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either gardening or farming. The introduction and notes (added in 1989) sketch in the background from which these remarkable poems emerged as an improvised verse journal, sparely edited, coalescing spontaneously on the page. ' Moortown Diary keeps its eye firmly on the creatures behind the language. It's written in the style of Hughes's play translations: very swift and bright and urgent and speakable...Hughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact with anything outside ourselves. Right now, I can't think of anything more important than that kind of poem. Because we're not just here to think about literature. We're here to try to wake up.' Alice Oswald, The Guardian 'It grips your heart, and your intestines, like a vice from the first page. He makes language as physical as a bruise, and in these poems beauty and tenderness blend with violence.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'The Moortown sequence includes some of Hughes's finest poems...They are like no other poems I have read, with a degree of intensity, sanity and grace that he has never equalled.' Anthony Thwaite, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571363164

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Crow by Ted Hughes Pdf

This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by Leonard Baskin to make a book with him about crows, Hughes found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547319498

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence Pdf

"Birds, Beasts and Flowers" is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. The poems in the collection include some of Lawrence's finest reflections on the "otherness" of the non-human world. The recollections on the topic were inspired by Lawrence's stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920. The author managed to transfer the atmosphere of that place and time masterfully.

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571262946

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Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes Pdf

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.

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 0571215025

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Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes Pdf

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.

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 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.”

Author : Ted Hughes,Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0571246982

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Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes,Simon Armitage Pdf

Part of a set of six beautiful, collectable hardcover gift editions.