Gaudete - Softcover

Hughes, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571111246 ISBN 13: 9780571111244

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2001

Synopsis

'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific visual images and the ability to evoke them in words.' Oliver Lyne, Times Literary Supplement

About this title

About the Author:

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Synopsis:

The passion of the writing in this volume has been described as delivering the sensation of a line writing itself in front of the reader's eyes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571111246
• ISBN 13: 9780571111244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208