Collected Poems for Children

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571215027
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
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.

New Selected Poems

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: New York ; Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.

Birthday Letters

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

Simplify Me When I'm Dead

Author: Keith Douglas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571230385
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Part of Faber's critically acclaimed Poet to Poet series

The Collected Poems

Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062669451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

Letters of Ted Hughes

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571262945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 786

Book Description
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.

Howls & Whispers

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Prospectus for "Howls & whispers," by Ted Hughes, with etchings by Leonard Baskin.

Lupercal

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057126297X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November.

What is the truth?

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571176243
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
The second of four volumes of animal poems for children and adults which Ted Hughes has himself arranged in a sequence of increasing complexity. Each volume is available separately, for different age-groups, and they are also available as a boxed set.

A Ted Hughes Bestiary

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301452
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. 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 coming about their business. The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes's achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to 'those that have the wildest tunes.'