Download or read book Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Ewa Panecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Download or read book Static and Dynamic Elements in Ted Hughes River written by Valérie Doussaud and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River covers animal poetry, shamanism, metaphysics and mythology. It is also representative of the poet's eloquence and love for nature. There, movement is literally the paramount means of expression for the poet: it lies in the form of the writing itself, through rhythm and many other literary tricks, as well as through the settings and events described.The whole book is pervaded with movement, which seems to be to the poet what dance is to a dancer. River combines this particular feature with most of the properties of Ted Hughes' poetry. It is bulging with meanings, symbols, literary and philosophical conceits. It also leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the poet's vision of life and the universe, through the symbolical microcosm of the riverside environment. A vision generated by the struggle of opposites such as light versus darkness, movement versus stillness, sound versus silence, the world below versus the outside world. If the poet's outlook is mainly dualistic, one can find a unifying element: Ted Hughes' interest in shamanism, aiming at vital awareness and harmony.
Download or read book The Poet as Shaman a Study of Ted Hughes s Menagerie Poems written by Jenny Lynn Penberthy and published by 1978.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry written by Shamsad Mortuza and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘state terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bipolar world in order to contextualise and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorised as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.
Download or read book The Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Sandie Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Download or read book Ted Hughes Art of Healing written by Daniel Xerri and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.
Download or read book The Achievement of Ted Hughes written by Keith Sagar and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Stuart Hirschberg and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ted Hughes Nature and Culture written by Neil Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, ‘the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live’.
Download or read book A Thematic Analysis of the Poetry in Ted Hughes s Major Works written by John Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re making Poetry written by Nicholas Bishop and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Leonard M. Scigaj and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ted Hughes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers in Comparative Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Experience in Modern Poetry written by Ewa Panecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes written by Terry Gifford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.
Download or read book Ted Hughes written by Joanny Moulin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical preoccupations at the turn of the century. Over the years, academic criticism on the poetry of Ted Hughes has established some well-trodden paths, which this collection still strongly reflects, however, the productions of the latter Hughes, in poetry as well as in criticism, demand a revisiting of the critical discourse on his work. The biographical dimension, for instance, has gradually gathered momentum, and it is no longer possible to study the work of Ted Hughes without due reference to the life and work of Sylvia Plath. This book is, nonetheless, also motivated by the wish to bring some fresh blood to the Hughes studies by politely rocking the boat of a rather comfortably established critical reception that has prided itself on being the mouthpiece of the poet's own ideological discourse. For this reason, some of the chapters in this collection belong to a continental European tradition that is resolutely foreign to the former partisanships. For all that, Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons suggests that steering clear of the polemical ruts dug by fans and detractors alike can only benefit the future of scholarly studies devoted to a great poet.
