Advantages: It will make you believe in love. Disadvantages: You may feel you are prying.
Ted Hughes was always reticent about his marraige to Sylvia Plath and it seems beautifully appropriate that he should finally choose to talk about it in poetry. The poetry itself is polished, moving and thought-provoking but I suspect the real interest li ...
Advantages: fantastic use of language Disadvantages: sometimes hard going to read.
I bought this book several years ago and have been unable to put it down since! It is an honest and fascinating account of Ted Hughes ultimately tragic relationship with the American Poet Sylvia Plath. The couple met at Cambridge University in 1956 and ma ...
Advantages: Ted Hughes at his best Disadvantages: May need to read some of the poems over and over
Whether or not you are a fan of the late former Poet Laureate,it has to be said that he was a master of style and linguistic technique.The poems in this collection are,of course,addressed directly to his late wife,the American poet Sylvia Plath,and were w ...
Advantages: A refreshing look at an ancient epic Disadvantages: Will most likely remain obscure
...Did you know that Grendel was the first Beo-degradable monster in history?
GROAN!
When I gave this joke to an English professor, he used it in class, and promptly returned it to me.
Okay. I'll accept that. But, Beowulf deserves the kind of seriou ...
Advantages: Brings an ancient masterpiece alive Disadvantages: Can be hard going
Beowulf was one of the first poems ever to be written down in a language that was recognisably English. In the original it is virtually incomprehensible to all but scholars and although translations have been available for many years it is this version b ...
