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May 21, 1979 · Ted Hughes. Edward James Hughes was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008, The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of ...
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Between the first and the last poems of Remains of Elmet, Hughes traces the history of a society’s war with Nature and the sad misdirection of its energies. In broad outline, this history is simply told. First, in a euphoric state of co–operation, the “ great adventure ” of farming the land began: Nature’s powers were pressed into ...
Sep 15, 2011 · Remains of Elmet. Ted Hughes. Faber & Faber, Sep 15, 2011 - Poetry - 88 pages. 'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to. the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge for. criminals, a hide-out for refugees.
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Aug 12, 2024 · Remains of Elmet is a transitional volume in this respect; it falls between Gaudete whose mythic structure plots, in perhaps too detached a way, the downfall of Reverend Lumb, an Anglican minister ...
REMAINS of ELMET concerto for viola-vocalist, voices and instruments (2013) in six parts based on the poetry collection by Ted Hughes a music-theatre collaboration with Victoria Bernath Commissioned as recipients of the Terry Holmes Composer/Performer Award 2012/13 for the York Spring Festival of New Music 2013 VIDEO edited by Christopher ...
Mar 15, 2024 · An episode from 3/15/24: Tonight, I read eleven poems from Ted Hughes’s 1979 collection, Remains of Elmet. His books Crow, Moortown Diary, Remains of Elmet, and River contain his best poetry, and they are models for any artist in how handle nature, animal life, myth, and autobiography in their work. The poems that I read from Remains of Elmet ...
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[14] This interrogation will continue throughout his work, most notably in Lupercal, Crow and the war-haunted poems of Remains of Elmet. The Hawk in the Rain is both the foundation upon which this later work rests and an influential collection in its own right. Sylvia Plath’s heady description of the book perhaps best captures the excitement ...
