A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems - Couverture souple

Hughes, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374272638 ISBN 13 : 9780374272630

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016

Synopsis

"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 Heaney

Originally, 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: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. In A Ted Hughes Bestiary, 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 going about their business.

In Poetry in the Making, Hughes said that he thought of his poems as animals, meaning that he wanted them to have "a vivid life of their own." Distilled and self-defining, A Ted Hughes Bestiary is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes's achievement, while offering room to overlooked poems, and "to those that have the wildest tunes."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

TED HUGHES (1930-1998) published numerous volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1985 and was appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1984.

Alice Oswald has published three books of poetry and received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald, and their three children in Devon, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374272638
• ISBN 13: 9780374272630
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Oswald Alice
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible