BOOKS by Ted Hughes

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1	The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Editor) add to wishlist Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.31! \| first editions
2	Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses more books like this by Ted Hughes, Ovid add to wishlist The wonderful stories of the transformation of nymphs and heroes into beasts, flowers, constellations, or natural landmarks, originally told by Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), have been retold by poet Ted Hughes. The book won the 1998 Whitbread Book of the Year award. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $4.67! new only from $4.67! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The iron man more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist Hughes's classic about a huge iron man who struggles to put himself together after being smashed to pieces falling from a cliff, and then takes on a giant dragon in an unfair contest. It was first published in 1968 and has sold over a million copies since. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.40! \| first editions
4	Birthday letters more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of a narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid, they cover the whole period of their relationship, from the first meeting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Alcestis: A Play more books like this by Euripedes, Ted Hughes (Translator) add to wishlist 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, and his "Phedre" was acclaimed on ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $10.05! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Letters of Ted Hughes more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other ... see all copies from $18.99! new only from $20.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Iron Giant more books like this by Ted Hughes (Illustrator), Andrew Davidson (Illustrator) add to wishlist This five chapter story tells of an Iron Giant who travels the earth eating such things as tractors and terrorizing the human population. No one knows why the Iron Giant has appeared or what he wants. Luckily, a boy named Hogarth is able to calm and communicate with Iron Giant and discover his mission. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.79! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The dreamfighter and other creation tales more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist Following "How the Whale Became" and "Tales of Early World", this third volume contains ten further Creation Tales. Sophisticated storytelling and an irresistible energy combine in this collection, full of dark comedy. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $4.99! \| first editions
9	The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes more books like this by Ted Hughes (Translator), Aeschylus add to wishlist In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's "Phedre," Euripedes' "Alcestis," and the trilogy of plays known as at "The" "Oresteia," a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry. "The Oresteia"--Agamemnon, Choephori, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| SVS
10	Ted Hughes : poems more books like this by Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage add to wishlist In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work. see all copies from $4.53! new only from $6.01! \| first editions
11 view cover	Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist 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 environment, and the arts in general. see all copies from $4.16! new only from $25.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Selected Poems 1957-1994 more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist A comprehensive overview of Hughes's stellar career as a poet. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $5.54! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Collected Poems more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist From the astonishing debut "Hawk in the Rain" (1957), to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes has been a giant on the literary landscape of the 20th century. This collection gathers five decades of his work, from his earliest magazine publications through all of his books - including such ground-breaking volumes as "Crow", "Tales from Ovid" and "Birthday ... see all copies from $7.89! new only from $8.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Racine's Phedre more books like this by Ted Hughes (Translator), Jean Racine add to wishlist Late British Poet Laureate Hughes emphasized the brutality of the characters' passions in his translation of Racine's classic play, replacing the Alexandrines of the original with his characteristic clipped, intense free verse. The play pits a queen with a powerful lust for her stepson--who himself loves a prisoner--against courtesans who try to ... see all copies from $4.21! new only from $75.00!
15	Crow more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist This critical work on Shakespeare attempts to show his complete works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly-integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use in the poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece", of the two most significant religious myths of the archaic world, Hughes argues that these myths later provided ... see all copies from $20.64! new only from $144.94! \| first editions
17 view cover	Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist 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, almost funny, story in which natural forces and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Remains of Elmet more books like this by Ted Hughes, Fay Godwin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.75! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Ted Hughes Collected Poems more books like this by Ted Hughes, Paul Keegan (Editor) add to wishlist From the astonishing debut "Hawk in the Rain (1957) to "Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work. see all copies from $19.00! new only from $33.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Blood Wedding: A Play more books like this by Federico Garcia Lorca, Ted Hughes (Translator) add to wishlist Ted Hughes captures the violence and pathos of Lorca's original story. Based on a bride who ran away with the son of an enemy family, this work investigates desire, depression and the constraints of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $5.57! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Selected Translations more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. Throughout a long and intensely productive career, Hughes was continuously engaged in acts of translation, for the page and for the stage, starting with his role in the establishment of the annual Poetry International in London ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Iron Woman: 9 more books like this by Ted Hughes, Barry Moser (Illustrator) add to wishlist A terrifyingly huge Iron Woman emerges from the swamp one day to warn young Lucy and the people of her town about the evils of water pollution. When the people wont listen, the Iron Woman is bent on destroying the factory where Lucy's dad works. Will Lucy be able to appease the Iron Woman before she destroys the community? Will the townspeople ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Hawk in the Rain: Poems more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist Originally published in 1957, "Hawk in the Rain" was the first collection of poems by Ted Hughes. The book won the New York Poetry Center First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Marianne Moore; it also won the Somerset Maugham Award. Indeed, "Hawk in the Rain" was acclaimed by every reviewer from A. ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $12.84!
24 view cover	The Spoken Word: Ted Hughes: Poetry in the Making more books like this by Ted Hughes (Read by) add to wishlist This second two CD set draws on the broadcasts Ted Hughes made for schools, particularly the highly praised "Listening and Writing" series, later published as "Poetry in the Making", in which Hughes aimed to encourage an interest in imaginative writing in 10-14 year olds. Hughes explains the origins and development of some of his most famous ... see all copies from $18.96! new only from $18.96!
25 view cover	Gaudete more books like this by Ted Hughes add to wishlist The passion of the writing in this volume has been described as delivering the sensation of a line writing itself in front of the reader's eyes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions

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