Ted Hughes

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Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down.Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.

Sylvia Plath es una de las voces definitorias de la poesía del siglo XX. Esta selección clásica de su obra, realizada por su marido Ted Hughes, constituye la introducción perfecta a esta influyente poetisa. Los poemas presentados en esta edicion bilingue estan tomados de las cuatro colecciones de Sylvia Plath Ariel, El cColoso, Crossing the Water y Winter Trees, e incluyen muchas de sus obras mas celebres, como "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus" y "Wuthering Heights".

El poemario que escribió Ted Hughes en silencio a su primera esposa, Sylvia Plath «Este libro irrumpe con la fuerza inesperada de un rayo y leerlo es como sufrir su descarga eléctrica. [...] Nunca s

El poemario que escribió Ted Hughes en silencio a su primera esposa, Sylvia Plath«Este libro irrumpe con la fuerza inesperada de un rayo y leerlo es como sufrir su descarga eléctrica. [...] Nunca se

In his introduction to this anthology, the Poet Laureate explains a system for memorizing poetry. The 101 poems which follow are among his favourites, and are well suited to the described method. Thi

Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - including the whale, the elephant, the cat and the donkey - that came about in different ways!Ted Hughes' classic text is accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of Jackie Morris to bring a lyrical and witty version of the creation myths to young readers.

Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughess poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswalds 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 Hughess achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to those that have the wildest tunes.

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment (The School Librarian).

Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesnt exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience w

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachussetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visitors. She published just a handful of poems in her lifetime, her first collection appearing posthumously in 1890.

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

Ted Hughess Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughess only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. 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 gasping. Seamus HeaneyEven if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book. Andrew Motion

A beautiful 25th anniversary edition of Ted Hughess The Iron Woman, the incredible sequel to The Iron Man, with the stunning original wood engravings from Andrew Davidson and a foreword by Michael Morpurgo.The streaming shape reared . . . like a sudden wall of cliff, pouring cataracts of black mud and clotted, rooty lumps of reeds. Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Womans rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who better to call on but Hogarth and the Iron Man . . . ? A sequel and companion volume to Ted HughesThe Iron Man, this new, child-friendly setting will be treasured by a new generation of readers.A beautiful new edition . . . wonderfully imagined, hugely challenging, modern myth.Carousel

When Michael Hofmann and James Lasduns ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughess three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translators gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poetwere somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughess supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughess 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. Its written in the style of Hughess 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 cant think of anything more important than that kind of poem. Because were not just here to think about literature. Were here to try to wake up. Alice Oswald, The GuardianIt 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 TimesThe Moortown sequence includes some of Hughess 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

Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Womans rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who better to call on but Hogarth and the Iron Man . . .? A sequel and companion volume to Ted HughesThe Iron Man, this new, child-friendly setting will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down.Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.

Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge.Lucy understands the Iron Woman''s rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction.She needs help. Who better to call on but Hogarth and the Iron Man...?A sequel and companion volume to the Faber Children''s Classics The Iron Man, this new, child-friendly setting will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998. Including many of Hughes' best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - Hawk in the Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets.