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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374125387
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0374125384
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1376
Publication Date: November 15, 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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All the poems of a great 20th-century poet
From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and those children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium-gatherum of Hughes's work is animated throughout by a voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than those of his contemporaries.
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For me Hughes is the great poet of the past century and perhaps the greatest since Wild Bill Shakespeare. The sooner you get into this BIG book the sooner you will enter a place where language lifts into spirit and all your received ideas about poetry blow away. In English, Hart Crane took the first step at creating a music that rides above mere meaning where words gather force from their magnetic auras. I am reminded of Beethoven who wrote back to a musician complaining of the difficulty of his ... Read More
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Without a doubt the best thing I've read in half a year. A keeper, a gem, a wealth between covers. What a book. What a writer. His flow, rhythm, depth, lilt, phrasing are unequalled by any contemporary writer I know. He was a great, great writer and this book does justice to his memory.
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a creative poet, one whose syntactical leaps into innovation forever shine and shock-thrill, an aggressive poet, one who breeds the leopard, who polishes the claw, who is quite willing to gash, hate-slice and bedevil. known for having encouraged silvia plath to allow her ear to be bitten on their first date - his odd love poems in some of his first collection of poetry a gem-marvel into obscurity and tangled emotion. he is a brilliant surveyor of the jungle of irrationality - truly entertaining ... Read More
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Ted Hughes "Collected" should not be missed by anyone who loves poetry and wants a base of inexhaustible grist for their "mill".
Incredibly, some, including apparently a well meaning reviewer here for Amazon have come to see Ted Hughes as adjunct in importance to his one time wife, Sylvia Plath..."Mr. Plath"?! Please! For the poet in the know this is a laugher!...Sylvia was a bright shining star, but history will note that she could never eclipse her one time husband in either sphere or poetical ... Read More
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Ted Hughes has been reviled for over four decades for his part in the life and death of the poet Sylvia Plath. So strong is her mythology that many have relegated Hughes to a minor role, a bit player, in her epic tragedy. Plath was an astonishing and powerful poet. In the end she became one of the best poets of the twentieth century. So did her one-time husband.
Ted Hughes evidently had a great many faults both specifically as a man and more generally as a human being. This book has nothing ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374125387
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0374125384
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1376
Publication Date: November 15, 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux