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Title: Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes, William Scammell ISBN: 0-312-13625-0 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Challenging and Rewarding group of essays
Comment: I came to Ted Hughes through the work of Sylvia Plath. I cannot profess to be huge fan of his poetry, although it clearly has a thread of brilliance through it. His essays, however are truly illuminating. I'm not sure if there is another English language critic today who can bore so deeply into the essence of his subject, look at it from so many angles and levels, and, place it in so many contexts. His interests are universal but his gaze is most acute when looking into the psycho drama of literary creation. This book, covering a selection of every period of his career provides the reader with new insights into reading he might have already covered as well as a wealth of new material. Some selections rank with T S Eliot's 'Sacred Wood' as some of the century's most profound literary criticism.
Rating: 5
Summary: The world in a collection of essays
Comment: It is difficult to call to my mind a book that could more thoroughly engage a serious reader, in a reading life that spans three or four decades, than Winter Pollen.
Hughes has a way of putting things into a context that the western mind can participate in. He is a wholly erudite man in a time when the world is as "thoroughly departmental" as an ant colony. It is with awe and a total liberation from the constraints of work, family, provincialism, capitalism and religionism that one plunges into this hypnotic work that moves from Shakespeare to Sufism like a streetcar moving along an established route.
Hughes' consciousness and curiosity is like a web he has spun around the world and into the universe, and we, his readers, are taken into his micro and macrocosms like children on a field trip, wondering why, after we have finished an essay or section of Winter Pollen, we do not think about these things more often. It is with a keen sense of what inspires wonder that he awakens wonder in a reader. He walks with an acrobat's balance across a tight rope spanning a gorge with carnivorous pedants on one side and stoned surrealists on the other, both camps trying to distract him and cause a fall, realizing his full commitment to either would precipitate a disaster for the other.
It is truly a wonder that he is not more celebrated and more known. Magazine publications with alleged literary repute have trumpeted writers with less than a tenth of his skill and imagination for three decades. But this is all OK. Perhaps a world sensible enough to embrace this literary lion would be too dull.
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Title: Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook ISBN: 0670031879 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke ISBN: 0385086016 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 10 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Collected Poems by Ted Hughes, Paul Keegan ISBN: 0374125384 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes ISBN: 0374525811 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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