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- Elmet was the ancient name of the Celtic kingdom in this part of Yorkshire, hence the title of Hughes’s book. At the time he wrote Remains of Elmet, during the late 1970s, the textile industry was dying and the area was in decline.
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Aug 12, 2024 · In Remains of Elmet, a volume of poems illustrated with photographs by Fay Godwin, Ted Hughes turns to a Yorkshire landscape to create a racial history which places the recent decline of...
The result of the collaboration between Hughes and Godwin was published in 1979 as Remains of Elmet and republished in a revised edition in 1994 as Elmet. Unlike the poems Hughes described in his letter, the majority of the poems included in the books were written to accompany the photographs of the Calder Valley taken by Godwin.
- Joshua Davies
- 2010
‘Healing and Sweetening’: Ted Hughes and the Regeneration of Elmet an exploration of Hughes’ use of poetry and of the powers of Nature in Remains of Elmet to heal the historic destruction wrought in the Calder Valley by religious fervour, the Industrial Revolution, and war.
Remains of Elmet was the first long sequence of Ted Hughes' poems to be published by Faber & Faber shortly after Cave Birds and Gaudete. In it, myth and ritual no longer dictate the basic pattern and movement of the sequence but are integral to each poem and to the whole cycle.
- Ann Skea
Aug 12, 2024 · In Remains of Elmet (1979) Hughes locks an entire volume in a specific landscape and in a specific historical problem: the Calder valley in Yorkshire and its decline since the fall of the...
May 21, 1979 · Hughes ties the death of his mother with the steady decay, of Elmet, at the hand of industrialisation, 'the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the angles' — the remains of which being the Calder Valley where the young Hughes grew up.
