Emily Dickinson
Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
$22.06
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2005
Summary
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571223435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571223435 |
| Author: | Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Poet to Poet |
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About The Author
Emily Dickinson
Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.
In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.
In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.
Ted Hughes’s first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe
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