Product Description: Long ago when the world was brand new, the sun rose into the sky and brought tje first day. Then, from every side, from under leaves and from behind rocks, creatures began to appear.To begin with, all the creatures were rather alike - they had no idea what they were going to become...read more

Product Description: Ted Hughes' spine-chilling and mesmerizing tale is widely regarded as a modern classic. Mankind trembles before the destruction wrecked by the Iron Man as he devours tractors, fences and ploughs, until a terrifying monster from outer space threatens to destroy the planet, and their former enemy becomes their saviour...read more

Shakespeare's best as chosen by the great English poet"According to most anthologies, [Shakespeare] wrote only sonnets and songs for his plays. The reason for this [is the] reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks . . . Yet when he great speeches of his plays are taken out of context they are no more difficult to understand and appropriate than those by other great poets."This clear, compact, inviting selection of Shakespeare's verse opens the door to new readers of our greatest writer and deepens lifelong readers' understanding of his work. Ted Hughes spent his life considering Shakespeare's works and drawing on them for his own poetry; his book-length account of Shakespeare's development, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, was one of the most distinctive works of literary criticism of recent years.For this selection, Hughes deliberately took strong, relatively self-contained passages of Shakespeare's verse out of the plays and arranged them in a pattern, like beads on a string, including the best-known songs and sonnets. The result is at once a revealing sequence of Shakespeare's verse and an anthology of his greatest bits―"read in less than a minute, learned in less than five," Hughes remarks in the introduction, and always "capable of striking up a life of their own in the general experience of the reader."

A selection of Shakespeare's poems, sonnets, songs, and dramatic speeches, along with the author's accompanying essay and commentary, shows how Shakespeare's language unites in its substance the full range of Elizabethan preoccupations, philosophical and social. Original.

A selection of the poet's translations of ancient and modern poems rounds out the publication of his major work and gives a fresh view of his poetic achievement, in a volume that encompasses works by such contemporaries as Yehuda Amichai, János Pilinszky, and Vasko Popa, as well as such precursors as Homer, Ovid, and others.

A creation story explains why bees go from flower to flower searching for sweetness.

Product Description: From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche...read more

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 ending with 'Season Songs', which Hughes remarked was written 'within hearing' of children.

The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. This work places Hughes the translator in relation to Hughes the poet. It offers a selection from Hughes' numerous translations.

The complete works of the English Poet laureate includes those previously published in Hawk in the Rain, Birthday Letters, Crow, Gaudete, and Tales from Ovid. Reprint.

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Twenty-eight illustrated poems about an otter, a dragonfly, a cow, a robin, and many other creatures of the land, sea, and air are accompanied by whimsical illustrations.

A collection of Ted Hughes' poetry from previously published works, including 'The Hawk in the Rain,' 'Lupercal,' 'Cave Birds,' and 'Season Songs.'

Product Description: 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 Phèdrewas acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London...read more