Bringing together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children, this collection is 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...
A series of chapters built round poems explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems to...
A literary landmark when published last year - the first time Ted Hughes had publically articulated his feelings about Sylvia Plath, their relationship and her suicide - made all the more poignant by the poet laureate's own death in October 1998. Paperbac...
En las entrañas de la Tierra vive un demonio. Un día, al asomarse al mundo, queda maravillado por su belleza. Con el deseo de hacer algo semejante, crea con sus lágrimas y piedras preciosas un ser que, ante sus ojos, supera todo lo...
Hughes's version of the classic Greek tragedies AGAMEMNON, THE CHEOPHORI and THE EUMENIDES. The plays are concerned with the aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus. Follows a single course from the domestic discord...
The third 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 collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen and Sylvia Plath. Hughes also expresses concerns about education, the...