Edward James Hughes, noto come Ted Hughes, è stato un poeta e scrittore di libri per bambini inglese. Il suo verso più caratteristico evita la sentimentalità, enfatizzando l'astuzia e la ferocia della vita animale in versi aspri, a volte frammentati. Il dialetto della sua nativa Yorkshire ha dato il tono alla sua poesia, e l'interesse per il folklore e l'antropologia si riflette nella sua opera. Hughes è celebrato per il suo coinvolgimento senza reticenze nel mondo naturale e nell'esistenza umana, attingendo alle forze primordiali della vita.
Un gigante di ferro apparve un giorno in cima a una scogliera. Nessuno sapeva da dove venisse né dove sarebbe andato. Il vento cantava tra le sue dita di ferro, mentre lui esplorava con i suoi grandi occhi luminosi il mare che non aveva mai visto. Erano molte le cose da scoprire, lì sulla Terra, e l'Uomo di Ferro fu felice di trovare una discarica di metalli in cui fare scorpacciate di rottami e un piccolo, intrepido amico da difendere. Perché dallo spazio stava per arrivare un pericoloso drago-angelo-pipistrello... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.
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.
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 Children's 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).
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.
This book gathers all of Ted Hughes's 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 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: rude, surreal, gleeful, desolate
poems - which for all their bleakness transmit a flash of hope.
In this collection of tales from the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. The author's other books for children include The Iron Man.
