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A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse by Ted Hughes
Category: Politics
For this new edition, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to restore to the common reader much of what, in Shakespeare, was instinctively available to the audience of his day, and to show how Sh ...Show more
A Choice of Stories for Children by Hughes, Ted
Category: Children's Audio Books
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: Children's Educational
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; Alice Oswald
Category: Poetry
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
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry
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
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry | 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: Poetry | 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
By Heart : 101 Poems to Remember by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber poetry
Jess' pick... (Poetry) 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 syste ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...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 (Hardback) by Ted Hughes (illus Raymond Briggs)
Category: unmapped
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs", which he remark ...Show more