PHEDRE: A NEW TRANSLATION BY TED HUGHES

Racine, Jean

ISBN 10: 0374231141 ISBN 13: 9780374231149

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Language: English

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1999. First American Edition. 8vo. As new unread hardcover, as new d/j.

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Title

PHEDRE: A NEW TRANSLATION BY TED HUGHES

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0374231141

ISBN 13

9780374231149

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

As new

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Reinterprets the story of a dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson in a new translation of one of classical mythology's most powerful tales

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'Ted Hughes's new version grasps the spirit of the original in a taut modern classicism. Everything falls on the eye and ear with splendor and passion."--Alastair Macaulay, "Financial Times"
"The French alexandrine couplet is notoriously hard to replicate in English cadences...yet, in the...fast-moving free verse he used to translate it, [Hughes] seems utterly at home with the action."--Eavan Boland, "The New York Times Book Review"
"[Ted Hughes] at his best...It is a strange and wonderful fact that...he should write so brilliantly just before he died."--Brian Cox, "The Hudson Review"

Ted Hughes's new version grasps the spirit of the original in a taut modern classicism. Everything falls on the eye and ear with splendor and passion. "Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times"

The French alexandrine couplet is notoriously hard to replicate in English cadences...yet, in the...fast-moving free verse he used to translate it, [Hughes] seems utterly at home with the action. "Eavan Boland, The New York Times Book Review"

[Ted Hughes] at his best...It is a strange and wonderful fact that...he should write so brilliantly just before he died. "Brian Cox, The Hudson Review""

Ted Hughes's new version grasps the spirit of the original in a taut modern classicism. Everything falls on the eye and ear with splendor and passion. Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times

[Ted Hughes] at his best...It is a strange and wonderful fact that...he should write so brilliantly just before he died. Brian Cox, The Hudson Review

"Ted Hughes's new version grasps the spirit of the original in a taut modern classicism. Everything falls on the eye and ear with splendor and passion." --Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times

"The French alexandrine couplet is notoriously hard to replicate in English cadences...yet, in the...fast-moving free verse he used to translate it, [Hughes] seems utterly at home with the action." --Eavan Boland, The New York Times Book Review

"[Ted Hughes] at his best...It is a strange and wonderful fact that...he should write so brilliantly just before he died." --Brian Cox, The Hudson Review

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