Hughes, Ted 1930-1998
Overview
Works: | 1,828 works in 5,360 publications in 14 languages and 116,178 library holdings |
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Genres: | Poetry Drama Tragedies (Drama) Juvenile works Criticism, interpretation, etc Diaries Nature poetry Biographies Science fiction Fiction |
Subject Headings: | Authors, English Poets, English Women poets, American |
Roles: | Author, Translator, Editor, Performer, Originator, Narrator, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Correspondent, Contributor, Librettist, Honoree, Creator, Compiler, Composer, Adapter, pre, Lyricist, Collector, Artist, Illustrator, Interviewee, Redactor, edc, wpr, win, Director |
Classifications: | PR6058.U37, 821.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Ted Hughes
- Birthday letters by Ted Hughes( Book )
- The laughter of foxes : a study of Ted Hughes by Keith Sagar( )
- The silent woman : Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm( Book )
- Ted Hughes, New selected poems by Neil Roberts( )
- Her husband : Hughes and Plath--a marriage by Diane Wood Middlebrook( Book )
- Ted Hughes : the life of a poet by Elaine Feinstein( Book )
- The art of Ted Hughes by Keith Sagar( Book )
- Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Margaret Dickie( Book )
- Sylvia by Christine Jeffs( Visual )
- Wintering : a novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses( Book )
- Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes( Book )
- In their right minds : the lives and shared practices of poetic geniuses by Carole Brooks Platt( )
- Ted Hughes : alternative horizons( )
- Ted Hughes by Keith Sagar( Book )
- The Achievement of Ted Hughes( Book )
- Ted Hughes by Susan Bassnett( )
- Ted Hughes : the unauthorised life by Jonathan Bate( Book )
- Ted Hughes by Leonard M Scigaj( Book )
- Ted Hughes : the unaccommodated universe : with selected critical writings by Ted Hughes & two interviews by Ekbert Faas( Book )
- Englishness and post-imperial space : the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes by Milton Sarkar( )
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Most widely held works by
Ted Hughes
The collected poems by
Sylvia Plath(
Book
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82 editions published between 1981 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work
82 editions published between 1981 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work
The journals of Sylvia Plath by
Sylvia Plath(
Book
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44 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Excerpts from the journals of Sylvia Plath, from her student years at Smith College through her marriage to Ted Hughes
44 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Excerpts from the journals of Sylvia Plath, from her student years at Smith College through her marriage to Ted Hughes
Crow : from the life and songs of the crow by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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112 editions published between 1970 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Compendium of poems which powerfully explores the realm of primeval consciousness
112 editions published between 1970 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Compendium of poems which powerfully explores the realm of primeval consciousness
Selected poems, 1957-1967 by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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57 editions published between 1920 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,884 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents works from the English poet's books The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal, and Wodwo
57 editions published between 1920 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,884 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents works from the English poet's books The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal, and Wodwo
The iron giant : a story in five nights by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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38 editions published between 1968 and 2011 in English and held by 1,688 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster
38 editions published between 1968 and 2011 in English and held by 1,688 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster
Season songs by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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44 editions published between 1975 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of twenty-eight poems grouped to represent the four seasons
44 editions published between 1975 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of twenty-eight poems grouped to represent the four seasons
River by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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33 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,397 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, these poems are a passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart' and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic rivers
33 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,397 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, these poems are a passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart' and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic rivers
The hawk in the rain by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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100 editions published between 1957 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998. Including many of Hughes' best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - Hawk in the Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets
100 editions published between 1957 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998. Including many of Hughes' best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - Hawk in the Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets
Collected poems by
Ted Hughes(
Book
)
28 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Publisher's description: 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, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and those children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium gatherum of Hughes's work is animated throughout by the voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than that of his contemporaries
28 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Publisher's description: 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, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and those children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium gatherum of Hughes's work is animated throughout by the voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than that of his contemporaries
Wolfwatching by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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36 editions published between 1982 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ted Hughes's fourteenth collection of poetry, contains several characteristic poems, in which nature is presented with striking exactitude, unclouded by sentiment. But Hughes breaks new ground with a number of intimate and unforgettable poems that memorialize members of his family as they were in his youth, in the years following the First World War
36 editions published between 1982 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ted Hughes's fourteenth collection of poetry, contains several characteristic poems, in which nature is presented with striking exactitude, unclouded by sentiment. But Hughes breaks new ground with a number of intimate and unforgettable poems that memorialize members of his family as they were in his youth, in the years following the First World War
The Oresteia by
Aeschylus(
Book
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19 editions published between 1998 and 2020 in English and Dutch and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Orestia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides--depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. Hughes's 'acting version' of the trilogy is itself a great performance; while artfully inflected with the contemporary, it has a classical beauty and authority"--Jacket
19 editions published between 1998 and 2020 in English and Dutch and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Orestia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides--depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. Hughes's 'acting version' of the trilogy is itself a great performance; while artfully inflected with the contemporary, it has a classical beauty and authority"--Jacket
Tales from Ovid by
Ovid(
Book
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16 editions published between 1997 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems from Ovid's The Metamorphoses in a new translation by a British poet. They include the tragedy, Echo and Narcissus, describing Narcissus' descent into madness as "Again and again he kissed / The lips that seemed to be rising to kiss his / But dissolved, as he touched them / Into a soft splash and a shiver of ripples."
16 editions published between 1997 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems from Ovid's The Metamorphoses in a new translation by a British poet. They include the tragedy, Echo and Narcissus, describing Narcissus' descent into madness as "Again and again he kissed / The lips that seemed to be rising to kiss his / But dissolved, as he touched them / Into a soft splash and a shiver of ripples."
Wodwo by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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60 editions published between 1967 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Wodwo is Ted Hughes' first book for adults since Lupercal in 1960. It consists principally of the poems he has written in the years since then, but it also contains five stories and one radio play." From the bookjacket
60 editions published between 1967 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Wodwo is Ted Hughes' first book for adults since Lupercal in 1960. It consists principally of the poems he has written in the years since then, but it also contains five stories and one radio play." From the bookjacket
Lupercal ; [poems] by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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75 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November
75 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November
Cave birds : an alchemical cave drama by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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29 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,173 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,173 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gaudete : [poems] by
Ted Hughes(
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47 editions published between 1977 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In a fable-poem, an Anglican clergyman is abducted by spirits and replaced on earth by an unprincipled duplicate of himself
47 editions published between 1977 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In a fable-poem, an Anglican clergyman is abducted by spirits and replaced on earth by an unprincipled duplicate of himself
Moortown by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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25 editions published between 1979 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A central sequence of thirty-four poems on the ordinary life of serious farming, touching on both the brutal and the ecstatic, accompany three other sequences, different in subject, tone, and feeling
25 editions published between 1979 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A central sequence of thirty-four poems on the ordinary life of serious farming, touching on both the brutal and the ecstatic, accompany three other sequences, different in subject, tone, and feeling
Shakespeare and the goddess of complete being by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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29 editions published between 1992 and 2020 in English and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this momentous adventure in criticism, one of the leading poets writing in English argues that our profound response to Shakespeare's great late plays is prompted by a mythic, symbolic structure that inheres in each of them, and indeed binds the entire Shakespearean corpus into one huge, complex, ever-evolving work. Ted Hughes sees Shakespeare's early poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece as embodying two great myths of the archaic world, that of the hero who rejects the love of the Goddess and is killed in revenge by a boar; and that of the king, or god, whose crime is rape and whose punishment is banishment. These two complexes merge as Shakespeare's work develops into what Hughes calls the Tragic Equation, a flexible formula through which the poet was able to tap into the innate power of these myths to enliven his own imagination - and through him the imagination of Elizabethan England, in which the conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism in the "living myth" of the English Reformation never lay far from the bloody surface of events. With his characteristic mixture of erudition and immediacy, Ted Hughes traces this idea in a close reading of Shakespeare's entire work. This text originally grew out of correspondence with dramatists, and anyone for whom intimate attention to the plays is important - scholar, student, actor, or common reader - will profit greatly from Hughes's loving, intensive, engrossing, and radical analysis of the greatest writing in the language
29 editions published between 1992 and 2020 in English and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this momentous adventure in criticism, one of the leading poets writing in English argues that our profound response to Shakespeare's great late plays is prompted by a mythic, symbolic structure that inheres in each of them, and indeed binds the entire Shakespearean corpus into one huge, complex, ever-evolving work. Ted Hughes sees Shakespeare's early poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece as embodying two great myths of the archaic world, that of the hero who rejects the love of the Goddess and is killed in revenge by a boar; and that of the king, or god, whose crime is rape and whose punishment is banishment. These two complexes merge as Shakespeare's work develops into what Hughes calls the Tragic Equation, a flexible formula through which the poet was able to tap into the innate power of these myths to enliven his own imagination - and through him the imagination of Elizabethan England, in which the conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism in the "living myth" of the English Reformation never lay far from the bloody surface of events. With his characteristic mixture of erudition and immediacy, Ted Hughes traces this idea in a close reading of Shakespeare's entire work. This text originally grew out of correspondence with dramatists, and anyone for whom intimate attention to the plays is important - scholar, student, actor, or common reader - will profit greatly from Hughes's loving, intensive, engrossing, and radical analysis of the greatest writing in the language
The rattle bag by
Seamus Heaney(
Book
)
35 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in English and held by 1,011 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world
35 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in English and held by 1,011 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world
Under the North Star by
Ted Hughes(
Book
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19 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 1,008 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A sequence of poems and drawings which capture the essence of the lonely, mysterious creatures who struggle to survive under the North Star
19 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 1,008 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A sequence of poems and drawings which capture the essence of the lonely, mysterious creatures who struggle to survive under the North Star
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- Plath, Sylvia Other Interviewee Performer Author Narrator
- Sagar, Keith M. Other Author Editor
- Baskin, Leonard 1922-2000 Other Illustrator Author
- Roberts, Neil 1946- Author Editor
- Davidson, Andrew 1958- Illustrator Editor
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Author
- McCullough, Fran 1939- Other Editor
- Gifford, Terry Author Editor
- Wevill, Assia 1927-1969 Translator
- Malcolm, Janet Author
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Aeschylus Agamemnon,--King of Mycenae (Mythological character) American poetry--Women authors Americans Animals Authors' spouses Baskin, Leonard, Biography as a literary form Canon (Literature) Children's poetry, English Clytemnestra,--Queen of Mycenae Criticism and interpretation Crows Electra--(Greek mythological figure) England England--London English poetry Erinyes (Greek mythology) Executors and administrators Fables, Latin Goddess religion in literature Great Britain Greek drama (Tragedy) Hughes, Ted, Man-woman relationships Marriage Married people Metamorphosis--Mythology Mother and child Myth in literature Mythology Mythology, Classical Ontology in literature Orestes,--King of Argos (Mythological character) Plath, Sylvia Poetry Poets Poets, American Poets, American--Biography Poets, English Science fiction Seasons Separated people Shakespeare, William, Storms Tragedy United States Women and literature Women poets Women poets, American
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Chʹjuz, Ted
Chʹjuz, Ted 1930-1998
Hjuzas Tedas
Hjūzs, Teds 1930-1988
Hjūzs, Teds, 1930-1998
Hughes Edward James
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Hughes Edward James 1930-1998
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Hughes, Ted 1930-1998
Hughes, Ted (Ted James), 1930-1998
Hʹûz, Ted 1930-1998
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes angol költő és meseíró
Ted Hughes britisk dikter
Ted Hughes dichter uit Engeland (1930-1998)
Ted Hughes englischer Dichter und Schriftsteller
Ted Hughes englischer Dichter und Schriftsteller (1930-1998)
Ted Hughes İngiliz yazar ve çocuk edebiyatçısı
Ted Hughes poeta e scrittore inglese
Τεντ Χιούζ
Тед Г'юз
Тед Хьюз английский поэт и детский писатель
Тед Хјуз
Хьюз Т. 1930-1998
Хьюз, Тед 1930-1988
Хьюз Тед 1930-1998
Хьюз Э. Д. 1930-1998
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היוז, טד
טד יוז
טד יוז משורר וסופר ילדים אנגלי
יאז, טד 1930-1998
יוז, טד
יוז, טד 1930-1998
تد هیوز
تيد هيوز
تيد هيوز، 1930-1998
تێد ھیووز
تەد حوگهەس
টেড হিউজ ইংরেজ কবি ও লেখক
ਟੈੱਡ ਹਿਊਜ਼
ტედ ჰიუზი ინგლისელი პოეტი და საბავშვო მწერალი
테드 휴스
휴스, 테드 1930-1998
휴즈, 테드 1930-1998
テッド・ヒューズ
ヒューズ, エドワード ジェイムズ
ヒューズ, テッド
ヒューズ, テド
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