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9780374531454

Selected Translations Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780374531454

  • ISBN10:

    0374531455

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-09-02
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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"EXPAND[S] OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THIS FASCINATING LITERARY CHARACTER." STEVEN RATINER,THE WASHINGTON POSTBOOK WORLD 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 out the publication of his major work and gives us a fresh view of his poetic achievement.In 1965, Hughes, already famous in Britain, founded the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, and a number of the translations here are of poems by his contemporaries: the Israeli Yehuda Amichai, the Hungarian Janos Pilinszky, and the Serbian Vasko Popa. At the same time, Hughes was forever in search of older precursors, whether Homer, Lorenzo de' Medici, or the authors of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and his translations of them deepen our sense of his interest in pagan ritual and esoteric religion. These two strains of his work as translator were brought together late in his career, establishing him as one of the foremost interpreters of the classics in English.

Author Biography

Ted Hughes (1930–98) produced more than forty books of poetry, prose, drama, translation, and children’s literature, including, in his last decade, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Tales from Ovid, and Birthday Letters.

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“[These] unusual examples of [Hughes’s] work . . . do more to enlarge our understanding of him than any recapitulation of his more well-thumbed output.” —PHOEBE PETTINGELL, The New Leader

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