Лучшие книги Теда Хьюза

Это фантастическая книга о самом первом Железном человеке. Никто не знает, откуда он взялся, возможно, из моря, во всяком случае именно там его впервые встретил мальчик, который был с отцом на рыбалке. Железный человек может выжить, только если будет есть хрустящий металл машин. Людям это не нравится, и они готовят для него ужасную ловушку, которая навсегда уничтожит Железного человека. Но тут происходит что-то по-настоящему невероятное! Страшный монстр из космоса грозит уничтожить всю планету, и тогда Железный человек становится единственной возможностью спасти этот мир.

«Ворон» Теда Хьюза (1930–1998) – это большой эпический цикл из шестидесяти семи стихотворений, своего рода фрагментов мифа, развернутого от первотворения до современности. В центре мифа, созданного Хьюзом, – герой-трикстер, пернатое существо, именуемое Вороном. Ворон путешествует в пространстве и времени, участвует в сотворении мира и человека, соревнуется с Богом, становится свидетелем сражений и катастроф, переворотов души и сознания, взлетов и угасания религий, великих открытий и великих ошибок. Тед Хьюз стремился в этих стихах к пугающей простоте, страшной ясности и точности языка, безжалостной откровенности. Они написаны в 1966–1969…

В сборник вошли произведения четырёх выдающихся поэтов современной Англии: замечательного валлийского поэта-демократа Дилана Томаса, одного из лучших лириков XX века Роберта Грейвза, видного поэта послевоенного поколения Филипа Ларкина и одного из наиболее интересных поэтов натурфилософского направления Теда Хьюза.

From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and those children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium-gatherum of Hughes's work is animated throughout by a voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than those of his contemporaries.

This volume contains a large selection of poems from 1957 to 1994, including uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing life, and some new work. Another notable feature is the inclusion of poems from his books for younger readers, 'What is the Truth?' and 'Season Songs'.

This first volume of Ted Hughes's creation stories describes how the animals of the world were formed and became the creatures recognized today.

Fay Godwin is commonly regarded as this country's finest landscape photographer. Ted Hughes, who was born and brought up in the part of the world she has captured in these atmospheric studies, was inspired by them to provide a verse text, one of the most personal things he has written.

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.

'English poetry has found a new hero and nobody will be able to read or write verse now without the black shape of Crow falling across the page.' Peter Porter

A very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else.
But Fred knew he was different.
He just didn't know quite how different.
And when he did....
Well, what then?

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.

"In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . . . [Ted Hughes] explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via a discussion of the poems (which he does with riveting skill) to some direct encouragement to the children to think and write for themselves. He makes the whole venture seem enjoyable, and somehow urgent . . . ' Times Literary Supplement

The streaming shape reared . . . like a sudden wall of cliff, pouring cataracts of black mud and clotted, rooty lumps of reeds.
Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge.
A sequel and companion volume to Ted Hughes' The Iron Man, this new, child-friendly setting will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

The correspondence between the British poet Ted Hughes and literary critic Keith Sagar lasted from 1969 until Hughes's death in 1998. During that time Hughes wrote 146 letters to Sagar, which show a unique dialogue between a writer and a critic. In the letters Hughes describes his creative process candidly and in great depth, offering exceptional insight into the poet at work. Their relationship, however, extended to many areas beyond literature, and the letters also cover such topics as Hughes's travels, hunting, religion, education, and his fraught relationship with Sylvia Plath. Never published before in their entirety, this collection provides a significant new perspective on Hughes's life and work

This collection brings together over 2.50 poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for younger readers and progressing to the more sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star", "What Is the Truth?", and "Season Songs". Animals - both real and fantastic - are often the subject, and at every turn Hughes reveals his famously incisive, unsentimental approach to writing about the natural world. Acclaimed illustrator Raymond Briggs accentuates the humor and themes at work (and play) in this volume with nearly zoo endearing drawings, while at the same time respecting the need for some of these poems to do their own illustration work entirely in the reader's mind. A triumphant testament to the former Poet Laureate of England's ability to engage and stretch the imagination of young readers, this is a book that one can turn to again and again for amusement, inspiration, and reassurance.

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Here are 28 whimsical, lyrical, and robust animal poems from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets. The mole, the cat, the squirrel, the donkey, and others make memorable appearances, accompanied by striking duotone artwork. Acutely observed, accessible, and surprising, this is perfect for children learning to love poetry.

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

"We will speak to the people," said God. "We will ask them a few simple questions. Then you shall hear. In their sleep they will say what they truly know."

It is 2am and God and his Son look down from a grassy hilltop on the spire and roofs of a village. Summoned in their sleep, the inhabitants one by one describe truly an animal they know well.

"This is a very beautiful book: pages of English moonlight, a modern Aesop in a village where God and his Son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple quetions ... the pomes are pure enchantment.