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A brilliant new study of one of the great English poets of the 20th Century, by a distinguished critic and scholar.This book opens with a section on Hughes's life, including the relationship with Sylvia Plath and the effect of her suicide on his poetry and reputation, followed by a review of Hughes's artistic strategies, his poetic language, and influences on his work. including the poets of Eastern Europe. The body of the book offers an approach to reading New Selected Poems (1995), taking in turn each of the remarkable and remarkably varied works from which the poems were selected - The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal, Wodwo, Crow, Cave Birds, Season Songs, Gaudete, Remains of Elmet, Moortown Diary, River and Wolfwatching. It concludes with a review of Hughes's reception, and a six-page bibliography.Professor Roberts's books include Ted Hughes: A Critical Study (with Terry Gifford, Faber, 1981), D. H. Lawrence, Travel and Cultural Difference (Palgrave, 2004), and Ted Hughes: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2006.

A schoolteacher's memoir

This new Revision Workbook provides a comprehensive collection of examination-style questions covering each topic from Components 1 and 2 from the Eduqas Biology for A Level Year 1 and AS specifications.

Welsh Language Edition. The Revision Workbook provides a comprehensive collection of examination-style questions covering each topic from the WJEC Biology for AS Level specification.

Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton, and a passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is a story of football and music across the generations, showing in touching and hilarious detail how a young boy inherited his father's obsessions - and would one day pass them on to his own son. A journalist like his father, Neil Roberts has special access to his beloved football club, so his heartfelt memoir includes glimpses within the inner sanctum of Goodison Park as well as every unforgettable Everton moment since the 1970s, all soundtracked by the Fab Four. Along the way, Neil meets his heroes - including musical as well as Everton icons - and reveals intriguing connections to Dixie Dean and a famous Victorian footballer. But above all else, Blues & Beatles is a story of football and music shared by father and son.

Endorsed by WJEC, and written by an experienced teacher and examiner, this Study and Revision Guide provides high quality support you can trust.

The Study and Revision Guide is endorsed by Eduqas, offering you high quality support you can trust. It provides essential underpinning knowledge, plenty of exam practice and advice on how to improve grades and avoid common mistakes.

Endorsed by Eduqas, the Study and Revision Guide provides essential underpinning knowledge, plenty of exam practice and advice on how to improve grades and avoid common mistakes.

Endorsed by WJEC, and written by an experienced teacher and examiner, this Study and Revision Guide provides high quality support you can trust.

This major new environmental history of the Mediterranean explores the changing relations between the natural world and human cultures in the region from the end of the last ice age.

How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic development.

How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic development.

The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.

This study of post-war poetry in English looks at how poetry has become more and more like the novel, and the reasons for this change. The text examines the narrative change in poetry through individual studies of 12 major English-language poets including Derek Walcott and Ted Hughes.