A Ted Hughes Bestiary
eBook - ePub

A Ted Hughes Bestiary

Selected Poems

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eBook - ePub

A Ted Hughes Bestiary

Selected Poems

About this book

Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals - all concentratedly coming about their business.

The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes's achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to 'those that have the wildest tunes.'

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571301454
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Four prose excerpts
  8. The Hawk in the Rain
  9. The Jaguar
  10. The Thought-Fox
  11. The Horses
  12. Meeting
  13. February
  14. Esther’s Tomcat
  15. Hawk Roosting
  16. The Bull Moses
  17. View of a Pig
  18. An Otter
  19. Thrushes
  20. Pike
  21. Stealing Trout on a May Morning
  22. The Lake
  23. Thistles
  24. Ghost Crabs
  25. Second Glance at a Jaguar
  26. Song of a Rat
  27. Skylarks
  28. The Howling of Wolves
  29. Gnat-Psalm
  30. Wodwo
  31. That Moment
  32. Crow and the Birds
  33. Crow Tyrannosaurus
  34. Two Legends
  35. Lineage
  36. Examination at the Womb-Door
  37. Crow’s Fall
  38. Owl’s Song
  39. Crow’s Elephant Totem Song
  40. Littleblood
  41. from Prometheus On His Crag
  42. Prometheus . . . Began to admire the vulture
  43. The Lamentable History of the Human Calf
  44. Swifts
  45. Mackerel Song
  46. Work and Play
  47. A Cranefly in September
  48. The Stag
  49. from Gaudete
  50. A Solstice
  51. from Orts
  52. Only a Little Sleep, a Little Slumber
  53. The Owl Flower
  54. The Risen
  55. And the Falcon came
  56. The Skylark came
  57. The Wild Duck
  58. The Swift comes the swift
  59. The Unknown Wren
  60. And Owl
  61. The Dove Came
  62. The Crow came to Adam
  63. And the Phoenix has come
  64. Curlews
  65. The Weasels We Smoked out of the Bank
  66. The Canal’s Drowning Black
  67. The Long Tunnel Ceiling
  68. Cock-Crows
  69. Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight
  70. Foxhunt
  71. Roe-deer
  72. February 17th
  73. Coming down through Somerset
  74. While she chews sideways
  75. Sheep
  76. The Lovepet
  77. Mosquito
  78. Cuckoo
  79. Swans
  80. Buzzard
  81. Snipe
  82. The Hen
  83. Mallard
  84. Evening Thrush
  85. Treecreeper
  86. A Dove
  87. Sing the Rat
  88. Swallows
  89. Under the Hill of Centurions
  90. Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan
  91. That Morning
  92. A Rival
  93. Performance
  94. An Eel
  95. October Salmon
  96. Visitation
  97. The Hare
  98. Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies
  99. In the Likeness of a Grasshopper
  100. A Sparrow Hawk
  101. Wolfwatching
  102. from Arachne
  103. The Owl
  104. The Chipmunk
  105. Epiphany
  106. from The Boy Changed into a Stag Cries Out at the Gate of Secrets
  107. The Prophet
  108. About the Author
  109. By the Same Author
  110. Copyright