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Ted Hughes
-A selection of animal poems from the seminal British poet, Ted Hughes—
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Jonathan Bate
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE ‘Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted…
Mark Wormald
It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.
He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was…
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A Ted Hughes Bestiary is a selection of some of Ted Hughes’s animal poems, chosen by Alice Oswald. ‘Cold, delicately as the dark snow. A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf.’…
Daniel Huws
In this memoir Daniel Huws describes the young and still carefree Ted Hughes, his Cambridge friends, his enthusiasms, his coming out as a poet, the arrival on the scene of…
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Neil Roberts
A brilliant new study of perhaps the finest English poet of the 20th Century, by a distinguished critic and scholar.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ted Hughes’s Relic , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Danny O'Connor
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…
Ewa Panecka
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…
Keith Sagar,Stephen Tabor
This revised and updated edition of a Ted Hughes annotated, descriptive bibliography includes a new section recording over 1000 of his manuscripts.
Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly…
A Study Guide for Ted Hughes’s The Horses, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine’s Phedre, Euripedes’ Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia…
A selection of Ted Hughes’s wonderfully vivid children’s fiction, read by the author and selected and introduced by Michael Morpurgo.
In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes’s most popular nature poems - to collect, savour and look at the world anew!
So wrote Ted Hughes in the foreword to this collection, taken from forty years of occasional story-telling. Of the nine items, six are from Wodwo, Hughes’s 1967 collection of poems…
A collection that brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more…
Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. Meet the…
This volume replaced Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each…
A collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred…
Newly re-jacketed, this is the strange tale of a vampire who longs to be human. Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the…
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Ted Hughes’ lolloping story in verse for young children, republished to delight and entertain a new generation.
A bewitching short story; a Metamorphosis for young readers.
he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the…
This selection of Hughes’s poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes’s first book, The Hawk…
Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place.
Poems written by Ted Hughes in response to Fay Godwin’s photographs of the part of Yorkshire in which he grew up.
Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes’s first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, ‘All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it’…
Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics.
Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes’s acclaimed Devon farming sequence
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum.
The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.
Lupercal, Ted Hughes’s second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including ‘The Bull Moses’, ‘Hawk Roosting’ and ‘Pike’.
Crow by Ted Hughes is a work of mythological power from one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century.
A collection of twenty-eight poems grouped to represent the four seasons.
‘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…
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit, gentleness and…
A classic anthology of creative writing by a ‘guardian spirit of the land and language.’ - Seamus Heaney.
Spanning four centuries, ranging from Shakespeare and Keats through to Auden and Heaney, By Heart offers the reader a ‘mental gymnasium’ in which the memory can be exercised and trained…
Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Hughes’s first and groundbreaking poetry collection.
Sema Taskin
The Romantic poet P.B. Shelley (1792-1822) expresses his own ideas on freedom, rebellion and tyranny in his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound (1819). In this work, Shelley portrays Prometheus not only…
Steve Ely,Cyril Barrett
Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes’s Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes’s experiences in South Yorkshire in town and country, educationally, in literature and…
