Moortown Diary

Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571262953
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moortown Diary written by Ted Hughes and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374529655
Total Pages : 1380 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Ted Hughes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the poems of a great 20th-century poet.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems written by Neil Roberts and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 book 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.

Author : Carrie Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800855354
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Page is Printed written by Carrie Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author's ideas about inspiration or how a poem should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper? This monograph explores these questions in offering the first full-length study of Ted Hughes's poetic process. Hughes's extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the book's unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses Hughes's techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work. The book considers Hughes's changing ideas about how poetry 'ought' to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It presents a fresh exploration of Hughes's major collections across the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of paper and ink to Hughes's poems, reading their histories, the stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and creative environments in which they were gestated, born and matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century's most iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his creative process.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847600700
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems written by Neil Roberts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new study of perhaps the finest English poet of the 20th Century, by a distinguished critic and scholar.

Author : Iain Twiddy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144112697X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry written by Iain Twiddy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. As Twiddy outlines the development of the form, he identifies its characteristics and functions. But more importantly his study accounts for the enduring appeal of the pastoral elegy, why poets look to its conventions during times of personal distress and social disharmony, and how it allows them to recover from grief, loss and destruction. Informed by current debates and contemporary theories of mourning, Twiddy discusses themes of war and peace, social pastoral and environmental change, draws on the enduring influence of both Classical and Romantic poetics and explores poets' changing relationships with pastoral elegy throughout their careers. The result is a study that demonstrates why the pastoral elegy is still a flourishing and dynamic form in contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Author : Raphaël Ingelbien
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011236
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misreading England written by Raphaël Ingelbien and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Raphael Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish poets - Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. This studyexplores the interactions between post-war English poets and the ways in which they transformed or misread earlier poetic visions of England - Romantic, Georgian, Modernist."

Author : Keith M. Sagar
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846310113
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughter of Foxes written by Keith M. Sagar and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary figure often overshadowed by his famed wife, Sylvia Plath, and their troubled marriage, Ted Hughes was a brilliant poet in his own right who wrote some of the most important British poetry of the twentieth century. The first in-depth study of Hughes’s personal papers published after his death, The Laughter of Foxes, is here offered in a newly revised second edition. An intimate yet critical survey of Hughes’s work, The Laughter of Foxes is penned by an acclaimed scholar and one of Hughes’ closest friends. Keith Sagar probes all aspects of the poet's life and work, delving into the specifics of his life as revealed by his writings and correspondence. A wide array of topics—including the mythic imagination, the poetic relationship between Plath and Hughes, and a detailed analysis of Hughes’s poem “A Dove Came” through its evolving drafts—reveals fascinating new avenues of literary and biographical analysis in Hughes’s work. Augmenting the rich text in this edition are excerpts of letters from Hughes to Sagar, a detailed chronology of Hughes’s life by Ann Skea, and the first publication of the story "Crow." Sagar also revisits his original introduction in this new edition, expanding it with additional insights into Hughes’s poetry as well as a detailed account of Hughes’s version of Euripedes’ Alcestis. A compelling study that the Daily Telegraph called “invaluable for anyone interested in Hughes’ work,” The Laughter of Foxes unearths the man behind the myth who struggled to transform his imaginative life from pain into hope.

Author : E. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281419
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elegies of Ted Hughes written by E. Hadley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319975749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture written by Neil Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, ‘the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live’.