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A Choice of Stories for Children by Hughes, Ted
Category: Audio
Ted Hughes' stories have delighted children for years and are now brought to life through wonderful audio recordings. This recording includes the stories: 'The Iron Man', 'How the Whale Became', 'How the Polar Bear Became', 'How the Cat Became', 'How the Hare Became', 'The Guardian', 'The Invaders', 'Th ...Show more
A March Calf - Collected Animal Poems Vol 3 by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
A Ted Hughes Bestiary - Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald (Editor)
Category: Gift
"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 ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes' 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 chronologicall ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
Category: Gift
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 chronological ...Show more
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
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 Sylvi ...Show more
By Heart by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift | Series: t/u until 2/3/16
What has happened to the lost art of memorising 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 mo ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes; Raymond Briggs (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
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. Throu ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (paperback) by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's Fiction
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 rem ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work. This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Euripides' Alcestis in a version by Ted Hughes by Alcestis; Ted Hughes
Category: Classics
In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version ...Show more