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Product Description: Ted Hughes is widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry, but the impact of Hughes's class background on his work has received little attention. This is the first full length study to take the measure of the importance of class in Hughes...read more

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9781441188168 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 19, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Ted Hughes is now widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry.

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9781474275576 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Ted Hughes is widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry, but the impact of Hughes's class background on his work has received little attention.

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Product Description: This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath...read more

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9781137310934 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 29, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement.

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9781137310927 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 29, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement.

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9788426417619 | Tra blg edition (Lumen Editorial, March 1, 2010), cover price $33.95

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9780712305495 | British Library Board, September 1, 2009, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780712305549 | 2 com/bklt edition (British Library Board, July 17, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.

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A translation of Euripides's play focuses on the grief of King Admetos whose wife has sacrificed herself so that he might live

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9780374149208 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A translation of Euripides's play focuses on the grief of King Admetos whose wife has sacrificed herself so that he might live
9783598713217 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $56.00
9780195018615 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 20, 1975, cover price $19.95

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9781428003002, titled "The Alcestis" | Indypublish.Com, May 30, 2006, cover price $87.99
9781420927313 | Digireads.Com, January 30, 2006, cover price $9.99
9781419105364 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $18.95
9780198720973 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1978, cover price $22.00
9780048820259 | Unwin Hyman, June 1, 1915, cover price $3.95

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Product Description: This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today...read more

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9780571177912 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
9780413476203 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, May 1, 1981, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced.
9780871294258 | Dramatic Pub Co, December 1, 1979, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete performance in Britain, at the National Theatre in 1974.

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By Daniel Weissbort (editor)

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9780374531454 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2, 2008), cover price $18.00

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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.

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9780374260682 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 4, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A selection of the poet's translations of ancient and modern poems encompasses works by such contemporaries as Yehuda Amichai, Jâanos Pilinszky, and Vasko Popa, as well as such precursors as Homer and Ovid.

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A brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography. Examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath.

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9780679431589 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Examines the afterlife of the troubled poet, looking at how her estranged husband struggled to share Sylvia's work, yet maintain his privacy

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9781862077331, titled "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" | New edition (Granta Books, July 7, 2005), cover price $16.15 | About this edition: A brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography.
9780679751403 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines the afterlife of the troubled poet, looking at how her estranged husband, Ted Hughes, struggled to share Plath's work, yet maintain his own privacy.

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Traces the more than six-year marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, which ended with Plath's suicide, profiling Hughes as a complicated and magnetic figure possessing a shrewd and ambitious business sense, and noting how many blamed him for Plath's death. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780142004876 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 31, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Traces the six-year marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, which ended with Plath's suicide, profiling Hughes as a complicated and ambitious figure, and noting how many blamed him for Plath's death.

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Product Description: Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and the style and substance of his verse...read more

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9780670031870, titled "Her Husband: Hughes and Plath-A Marriage" | Viking Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Traces the six-year marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, which ended with Plath's suicide, profiling Hughes as a complicated and ambitious figure, and noting how many blamed him for Plath's death.

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9780786188826 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers.

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9780786126545 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $39.95

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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.
By Ted Hughes and Paul Keegan (editor)

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9780374125387 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 15, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The complete works of the English Poet laureate include those previously published in 'Hawk in the Rain,' 'Birthday Letters,' 'Crow,' 'Gaudete,' and 'Tales from Ovid.

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9780374529659 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 13, 2005), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Drawn from archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, a compelling portrait of one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century details his marriage to poet Syliva Plath and reveals a man whose poetic vision captured his love of the natural world and the evidence of human violence in the past century. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780393049671 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the poet's life and relationships with Sylvia Plath, Assia Wevill, and Carol Orchard and his fascination with nature and with the poets of Eastern Europe.

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9780393323627 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2003), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Drawn from archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, a compelling portrait of one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century details his marriage to poet Syliva Plath and reveals a man whose poetic vision captured his love of the natural world and the evidence of human violence in the past century.

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An exploration of the powerful and destructive relationship between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath probes their lives and their writings, coupling commentary with the poems in 'Birthday Letters' and pointing to the events that shaped them.

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9780393020090 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An exploration of the powerful and destructive relationship between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath probes their lives and their writings, coupling commentary with the poems in 'Birthday Letters' and pointing to the events that shaped them.

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9780393323016 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

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The acclaimed writer's third volume of memoirs offers revealing portraits of Ted Hughes, Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alberto Moravia, and many others.

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9780862419868 | Canongate Books Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed writer's third volume of memoirs offers revealing portraits of Ted Hughes, Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alberto Moravia, and many others.

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Product Description: 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 Sylvia Plath...read more

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9781568955827 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780374112967 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems addressed to Hughes' late wife, poetess Sylvia Plath, dealing with the psychological breakdown that led to some of her greatest poems and her untimely death

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9780582227767 | Longman Pub Group, March 1, 1998, cover price $49.95

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9780582227750, titled "Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion and Beyond" | Taylor & Francis, February 1, 1998, cover price $64.95

A collection of stories by the poet laureate of England includes among others the fable 'O'Kelly's Angel,' about a man who captures and cages an angel, and 'The Wound,' about an episode in World War II

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9780312145873 | Picador USA, October 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories by the poet laureate of England includes among others the fable 'O'Kelly's Angel,' about a man who captures and cages an angel, and 'The Wound,' about an episode in World War II

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9780312168179 | Picardy Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories by the poet laureate of England includes among others the fable 'O'Kelly's Angel,' about a man who captures and cages an angel, and 'The Wound,' about an episode in World War II

Spanning a period of thirty years, a wide-ranging collection of writing about poetry and literature by the Poet Laureate of England includes reflections on the creative process and such figures as Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath

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9780312136253 | Picador USA, October 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Spanning a period of thirty years, a wide-ranging collection of writing about poetry and literature by the Poet Laureate of England includes reflections on the creative process and such figures as Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath

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9780312147662 | Picador USA, October 1, 1996, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: The difficulty of Hughes' later poetry often lies in its extreme simplicity, stripped of the surface 'poetry' the conventional critic is trained to respond to. Many of these poems are sources of great psychic or spiritual power if we can tap them, but on standard critical equipment seems obsolete...read more
By Keith Sagar (editor)

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9780312120542 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The difficulty of Hughes' later poetry often lies in its extreme simplicity, stripped of the surface 'poetry' the conventional critic is trained to respond to.

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Product Description: Three short pieces by England's former Poet Laureate, written in homage to T.S. Eliot.

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9780374134624 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Three short pieces by England's former Poet Laureate, written in homage to T.

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By Leonard M. Scigaj (editor)

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9780816188727 | G K Hall, November 1, 1992, cover price $49.00

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A work of criticism argues that the entire Shakespearean corpus can be seen as one huge, complex, ever-evolving work that stems from a mixture of the Bard's two early poems: 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece.'

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9780374262044 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A work of criticism argues that the entire Shakespearean corpus can be seen as one huge, complex, ever-evolving work that stems from a mixture of the Bard's two early poems: 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece.

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