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  • A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems

    • ASIN: 0374272638
    • ISBN: 0374272638
    • Brand: Farrar Straus and Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    “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 HeaneyOriginally, 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: s... [Read More]

  • Birthday Letters: Poems

    • ASIN: 0374525811
    • ISBN: 0374525811
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath.The poems in Birthday Letters are addr... [Read More]

  • By Heart : 101 Poems and How to Remember Them (Faber Poetry)

    • ASIN: 0571192637
    • ISBN: 0571192637
    • Manufacturer: Gardners Books

    What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language "by heart"? In his introduction, Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected ... [Read More]

  • Selected Poems 1988-2013

    • ASIN: 0374535612
    • ISBN: 9780374535612
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poetOften considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it wi... [Read More]

  • The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

    • ASIN: 0679751408
    • ISBN: 9780679751403
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

    • ASIN: 0374525870
    • ISBN: 0374525870
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Da... [Read More]

  • The Collected Poems (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0061558893
    • ISBN: 0061558893
    • Brand: Plath, Sylvia/ Hughes, Ted (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes

  • Seven Ages: Anthology of Poetry with Music / Various

    • ASIN: 9626341890
    • ISBN: 9626341890
    • Brand: Brand: Naxos Audiobooks
    • Manufacturer: Naxos Audio Books

    An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast--based on Lord Owen's anthology Seven Ages: Poetry for a Lifetime--features over 40 leading actors, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, Ralph Fiennes, John Cleese, Pete Postlethwaite and others.

  • Puffin Book Of Fantastic First Poems (Puffin Poetry)

    • ASIN: 0141308982
    • ISBN: 0141308982
    • Manufacturer: Puffin

    The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems edited by June Crebbin will absorb and delight girls and boys aged 5+. A great first poetry book; the poems span time, from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare right up to date with Roger McGough and Michael Rosen. Themes covered, such as mealtimes, playtime, animals, family and bedtime, really appe... [Read More]

  • Collected Poems for Children

    • ASIN: 0374314292
    • ISBN: 0374314292
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

    This collection brings together the more than 250 children’s poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written “within hearing” of children. Throughout, Hughes reveals his instinctive gr... [Read More]

  • River

    • ASIN: 0571130933
    • ISBN: 0571130933
    • Brand: Brand: Faber and Faber
    • Manufacturer: Faber and Faber in association with James & James

    Book by Hughes, Ted

  • Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters

    • ASIN: B0186GHQYC
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWhen Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems ... [Read More]

  • England's Best Loved Poems: The Enchantment of England

    • ASIN: B003JTHFPM
    • Manufacturer: Ebury Digital

    This treasure trove of very British poetry brings together over 100 classic poems, selected by bestselling author and proud patriot George Courtauld. Including national favourites such as Rupert Brooke's 'The Soldier', George Herbert's 'Love' and John Betjeman's 'A Subaltern's Love Song' these are poems chosen for their resonant power, nostalgia an... [Read More]

  • Counting Descent

    • ASIN: 1938912659
    • ISBN: 9781938912658
    • Brand: Write Bloody Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Write Bloody Publishing

    Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards'One Book One New Orleans' 2017 Book Selection---Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that... [Read More]

  • Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1555977413
    • ISBN: 1555977413
    • Brand: Graywolf Pr
    • Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

    Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys ... [Read More]

  • Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting

    • ASIN: B00LHA6GUA
    • Manufacturer: Penguin

    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea o... [Read More]

  • Crossing the Water

    • ASIN: 0060907894
    • ISBN: 0060907894
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Crossing the Water is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath that was prepared for publication by Ted Hughes. These poems were written at the same time as those that appear in Ariel. Crossing the Water continues to push the envelope between dark and light, between our deep passions and desires that are often in tension with our duty... [Read More]

  • The Nation's Favourite: Twentieth Century Poems

    • ASIN: B006X0M3M4
    • Manufacturer: BBC Digital

    This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth ... [Read More]

  • Notebook: Sylvia Plath , Journal for Writing, Size 6" x 9", 164 Pages

    • ASIN: 1691937606
    • ISBN: 1691937606
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 82 sheets (164 pages for writing). Sylvia Plath. 156791436614

  • Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.) (Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060732601
    • ISBN: 0060732601
    • Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimi... [Read More]

  • CROW - written and read by Ted Hughes

    Sylvia Plath reading her poems 1958

    Cillian Murphy reads Lovesong by Ted Hughes