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Ted Hughes and Theatre: The Emerging Dramatist 1956-1959
<p dir="ltr">This thesis focuses on Ted Hughes’s first full-length verse drama for the stage, The House of Taurus, completed in October 1959. Begun in autumn 1957, Taurus is also part of the story of Hughes’s sojourn in the United States and his determination to use those thirty months to develop …
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Outfacing history: the artistic influences of W. B. Yeats and others on Seamus Heaney's Noughties poetry
… his career as poet and critic, such as Virgil, Ted Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Kavanagh, and Philip Larkin. As they appear in the collections examined, the impact of these figures on the central Heaney–Yeats relationship is also discussed. These poets are ultimately useful …
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The natural and rural world in twentieth century British poetry
… /metaphysical polarity. For Hugh MacDiarmid and Ted Hughes, the tension within this polarity is claimed to be especially productive, while in writers like Hopkins and RS Thomas, a basic commitment to metaphysical orthodoxy is seen to be damagingly incompatible with the principles of free …
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Fire on the Tongue: A collection of Poems
<p>The Influence of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney My relationship with poetry has been complex. I once felt that poetry, my last friend and greatest hope, had betrayed me, had shut me out and left me very alone. My pen lacked the power that poetry had promised as the last refuge of those who wished …
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Snow and window: archetypes of imagination
… of self-allusive poems by Boris Pasternak, Ted Hughes, Gyula Illyes, and Gennady Aygi. Poems by other authors are also discussed briefly, or linked to the main texts through epigraphs. Contemplation of snow through a window is the central theme of the focused texts. Snowflakes falling on the …