Selected Poems

Author:   Ted Hughes ,  Thom Gunn
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9780571130948


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   14 March 1983
Format:   Paperback
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First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.

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Author:   Ted Hughes ,  Thom Gunn
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.10cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 18.60cm
Weight:   0.070kg
ISBN:  

9780571130948


ISBN 10:   0571130941
Pages:   64
Publication Date:   14 March 1983
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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To judge by the selected works of a man many consider her greatest contemporary poet, England is in serious literary trouble. Careful, well-crafted, with the over-diligent working of metaphor, these poems are almost totally deficient in vitality, spontaneity, and playfulness. To quote what is no doubt an unwitting self-description, his compilation of imageries rarely goes beyond itself: By feats of torpor, by circumventing sleights/ Of stupefaction, juggleries of benumbing,/ By lucid sophistries of sight/ To a staturing 'I am.' The subject matter is appropriately yesteryear: references to Cuchulain, Parnell, Faustus, King and Country, The War to End All Wars; words like behemoth, invocations such as Aged Eye! However, some of his later nature poems, where he assumes the guise of rock, wind, or animal, transcend this academic categorizing into a kind of ecstasy ( The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing at a work/ That points at him amazed ), giving promise to the more interesting direction of his future (now current) work. (Kirkus Reviews)


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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. In 1954 he moved to San Francisco and held a one-year Fellowship at Stanford University. He published over thirty books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Thom Gunn died in 2004

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