Ted Hughes, página 2 de 5

All the richness of the wild is seen through the poets eye. Here are poems from Hawk in the Rain, Wodwo, Wolfwatching, Lupercal and River as well as from Adam and the Sacred Nine, their juxtaposition highlighting the variety of the natural world and of Hughess poetry about it.

From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment (The School Librarian).

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in Gods vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the North Pole by the other animals who were jealous that she always won the annual beauty contest; the Hare has asked the moon to marry him but can never stretch his ears high enough to hear her reply; the Bee must sip honey all day long to sweeten the bitter demon that runs through his veins . . . each story is a delight for reading alone or aloud.

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. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to others. It is a fascinatingly detailed picture of a mind of genius as it evolved through an incomparably eventful life and career.

Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, Birthday Letters in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape.

Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction of the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. But when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.

Ted Hugues nació en 1930 en West Yorkshire (Inglaterra). Se licenció en antropología por la Universidad de Cambridge (1954), y tres años más tarde, publicó el primero de sus libros de poemas, Hawk in the Rain, que le confirmo como uno de los poetas mas importantes de su generacion, y una voz ajena a las tendencias imperantes en la poesia inglesa. Durante toda su vida, Ted Hughes hizo gala de un temperamento solitario y a veces misantropo. Vivio casi siempre en el campo, en contacto estrecho con la naturaleza que inmortalizaria en sus poemas. Su obra tiene dos vertientes: por un lado la produccion poetica propia, de la que el mismo preparo una brillante antologia en 1995 (New Selected Poems) y, por el otro, sus traducciones y adaptaciones de los clasicos, entre ellos Ovidio, Seneca, Racine y Lorca. En 1984 fue nombrado Poeta Laureado de la corte inglesa y en 1995 recopilo en una edicion de cuatro volumenes sus Animal Poems, sin duda la parte mas popular de su obra poetica. Encuadernacion: rustica.

Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - including the whale, the elephant, the cat and the donkey - that came about in different ways!Ted Hughes' classic text is accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of Jackie Morris to bring a lyrical and witty version of the creation myths to young readers.

In his introduction to this anthology, the Poet Laureate explains a system for memorizing poetry. The 101 poems which follow are among his favourites, and are well suited to the described method. Thi

The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks out a cryAnimals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Part of Hughess Collected Animal Poems, The Iron Wolf is for the youngest readers, both to listen to and explore themselves. Chris Riddells delightful line illustrations add to the journey of discovery.

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. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution in textiles, and the upper Calder became "the hardest-worked river in England". Throughout my lifetime, since 1930, I have watched the mills of the region and their attendant chapels die. Within the last fifteen years the end has come. 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 Hughess remarkable pennine sequence celebrates the area where he spent his early childhood. It mixes social, political, religious and historical matter - a tapestry rich in the personal and poetic investment of a landscape that both creates and is inured to its people, whose moors Are a stage for the performance of heaven. / Any audience is incidental. Remains of Elmet is one of Hughess most personal and enduring achievements.

Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,Have you met my sister Jane? Shes a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus...Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family members in Ted Hughes irresistible Meet My Folks, his first book for children, illustrated beautifully by George Adamson.

The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November.