The art of Ted Hughes

Author(s)

• Sagar, Keith M.

Bibliographic Information

The art of Ted Hughes

Keith Sagar

Cambridge University Press, 1978

2nd ed

• pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 246-268

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Dr Sagar believes that when we see Ted Hughes work as a whole, with each book a stage in a psychic adventure involving new stylistic challenge, we shall see it to be the achievement of a major poet. In this study of Ted Hughes, Dr Sagar gives most of his attention to individual poems, their meaning and coherence, their relation to each other and to the poetic tradition, their sources and background (often in mythology and folklore), and their relevance to living in our time. He began reading Hughes in 1957 when The Hawk in the Ruin appeared, and has followed his development closely ever since: here, with benefit of hindsight, he attempts to retrace that journey. A chapter is devoted to each major work.

Table of Contents

• 1. The Hawk in the Rain
• 2. Lupercal
• 3. Wodwo
• 4. Crow
• 5. Prometheus on his Crag
• 6. Season Songs
• 7. Cave Birds
• 8. Gaudete.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA18471361
• ISBN:
  • 052121954X
  • 0521293219
• LCCN: 77090217
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 277 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR6058.U37
  • DC : 821/.9/14
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hughes, Ted, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation