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A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate. When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands... More

Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet S... More

"This first collection of short fiction by England's Poet Laureate ranges in setting from Yorkshire to Africa, and addresses themes that have preoccupied Ted Hughes throughout his career." "These stories may be read as an accompaniment to his poetry, or independently as examples of craft and linguis... More

A collection of poetry written in a beautiful manner... More

When a giant iron woman arises from a marsh near a waste disposal factory, all men over eighteen turn into water creatures, and an entire country must confront the problems of pollution. Sequel to The Iron Man.... More

A poet's evocation of animals and plants which live on the moon of his imagination.... More

Other folk's folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own. Meet a host of strange and wonderful characters as Ted Hughes introduces us to his family.... More

This is a wonderful collection of poems, by Ted Hughes the poet working with a subject matter he had mastered and revisited for most of his life: the world of animals, plants and nature.... More

This collection brings together the more than 250 children's poems that Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written "within hearing" of childr... More

A poem book which is written by a popular artist. ... More

Poems by famous artists. ... More

This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, Lupercal, which introduced him as a major poet; from Wodwo, Crow, and Gaudete, book-... More

The late, great poet's version of poems ancient and modern. Known (with Philip Larkin) as the most distinctly English of the postwar British poets, Ted Hughes was a boundlessly curious reader and translator of poetry from other languages. This generous selection of his translations at once rounds ou... More

"Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world." --Seamus HeaneyOriginally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions--between them and us--but Ted Hughes's poetr... More

The Rattle Bagis an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contempo... More

Writing apart from the mainstream of nineteenth-century poetry, the author created a language of her own, and her work is both very varied and very consistent in its strength and charm. This selection features, arguably, some of her best pieces.... More

An exact and complete transcription of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath over the last twelve years of her life. Sylvia Plath kept a record of her life from the age of eleven until her death at thirty. The journals are characterized by the vigorous immediacy with which she records her inner though... More

A mysterious creature stalks the land, eating barbed wire and devouring tractors and plows. The farmers are mystified - and afraid.And then they glimpse him in the night: the Iron Giant, taller than a house, with glowing headlight eyes and an insatiable taste for metal. Where has he come from? Nobod... More

Shakespeare's best as chosen by the Ted Hughes. According to most anthologies, Shakespeare wrote only sonnets and songs for his plays. The reason for this is the reluctance of anthologists to break into the sacred precincts of his drama and start looting portable chunks ... Yet when the great speech... More

Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but ... More

An account of the five major expeditions across the Australian continent mounted by explorer Ernest Giles in the 19th century.... More

Pocos meses antes de morir, Ted Hughes sorprendió al mundo con la publicación de Cartas de cumpleaños, un libro donde se reunían los poemas que, a lo largo de las últimas décadas, le había escrito en silencio a su primera esposa, la poeta norteamericana Sylvia Plath, quien se suicidó en febrero de... More

Uno de los libros más revolucionarios de la poesía del siglo XX. Ted Hughes, uno de los grandes poetas ingleses de nuestro tiempo -poeta laureado, famoso por su tormentosa relación con la escritora Sylvia Plath-, escribió Gaudete, uno de los libros más singulares y experimentales de la poesía del ... More

This book provides case studies written by practitioners from four organizations serving diverse adult learners in equitable, inclusive, and just ways. Their work employs an adapted version of the Education Deans for Justice and Equity Framework for Assessment and Transformation, a comprehensive too... More

Thea Stanley Hughes explores the human soul through her beliefs in Karma and reincarnation. She explains that despite our intellectual and technological growth as a race, we have made few advances in addressing the spiritual growth of the soul.... More