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Ted Hughes
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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted
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Reception | Ruth Fainlight | RF
has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore
, A. S. Byatt
, and Elaine Feinstein
(who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the... |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath
, D. H. Lawrence
, Thom Gunn
, Ted Hughes
, Cesare Pavese
, Eugene Ionesco
, Simone de Beauvoir
, Jorge Luis Borges
,... |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
was deemed to be a top candidate to fill the position of Poet Laureate (left vacant by the death of Ted Hughes
). She was considered the popular choice, but the appointment went to... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
Publishing | Jeni Couzyn | The volume carried blurbs by distinguished names (Ted Hughes
and Philip Hobsbaum
) and her own line drawings. Maggs Bros Rare Books
recently advertised a copy inscribed to Kathleen Raine
. “Alan Clodd Library”. Maggs Bros Rare Books. |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | JC
edited for the 1970 Camden Festival a volume of twelve specially commissioned and previously unprinted poems, entitled Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day, published through the Poets' Trust
. This collection (whose cover gave... |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC
answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare
(written for the John Clare Society
) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early... |
Literary responses | Gillian Clarke | Critic M. Wynn Thomas
reads the Gothic pastoral Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48 Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48-9 |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | |
Literary responses | Catherine Byron | Critics praised CB
generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore
in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet, “Advertisement: The Getting of Vellum. Poems by Catherine Byron; About the Poet; Sample Poem; Reviews”. Salmon Poetry Online Bookshop. |
Reception | Patricia Beer | According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN
poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes
and Vernon Scannell
) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland
). She began... |
Reception | Fleur Adcock | After Ted Hughes
died on 28 October 1998, FA
's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion
. Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received... |
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