The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides.
A stunning, new, limited edition version of a much-loved children's classic.
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking.
This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) - the vital, shape-shifting collectionby Ted Hughes. They are the bones of poems - made of mere lines:... Læs mere
Hughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact with anything outside ourselves.
This volume contains six plays suitable for performance by children. Four were published under the title "The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays", and the other two are "Orpheus", previously only published in America, and "The Pig Organ" published for the first time.
he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific... Læs mere
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw.
Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, 'All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it', he was right... Læs mere
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding.
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that... Læs mere
They are now virtually dead, and the population of the valley and the hillsides, so rooted for so long, is changing rapidly.' Ted Hughes, Preface to Remains of Elmet (1979)Ted Hughes's remarkable 'pennine sequence' celebrates the area where he spent his early childhood.