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Hughes' relationship with nature is so central to his work that
every book on him has discussed it. However, because of the larger
scope of all these books, this discussion has remained at a fairly
superficial level. Here Keith Sagar tries to take it onto a deeper
level by relating it to paganism and Christianity, myth, Greek
tragedy, Shakespeare, and the whole tradition of nature poetry in
English, to Hughes' particular canon of revered poets, to his wider
reading and the shaping events of his life. He traces Hughes'
painful journey from terror in the face of nature in his first
three collections, through the transitional works from Crow to Cave
Birds, to the transformation in Moortown and Remains of Elmet,
culminating in the exultation of River. He argues that these three
collections constitute the apex of Hughes' achievement, and are
among the great works of world literature.
This revised and updated edition of a Ted Hughes annotated,
descriptive bibliography includes a new section recording over 1000
of his manuscripts.
D. H. Lawrence wrote over a thousand poems. His standing as a poet
would probably have been much higher but for his pre-eminence as a
writer of fiction. Though much has been written about Lawrence's
poetry (as revealed by the several hundred entries in the book's
checklist of criticism), there have been relatively few full length
studies. This book deals with the whole range of his poetry from
his earliest poems, such as 'To Campions' and 'To Guelder Roses',
through the poems inspired by his elopement with and subsequent
marriage to Frieda Weekley (Look! We Have Come Through!), to the
mature achievement, in free verse forms inspired by Walt Whitman,
of Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Pansies and Last Poems. The genesis
of the poems in Lawrence's life is explored; and there are new
interpretations of his most memorable poems, such as 'The Wild
Common', 'Piano', 'Song of a Man Who Has Come Through', Tortoises,
'Peach', 'Pomegranate', 'Snake', 'Bavarian Gentians' and 'The Ship
of Death'
This volume contains almost all of the letters D. H. Lawrence wrote
in the last fifteen months of his life: 763 letters, the majority
previously unpublished. Despite his failing strength, Lawrence was
in constant communication with publishers and agents. He continued
to write frequently to his sisters and friends. There is no new
fiction for Lawrence to discuss, but there are paintings, poems,
the major essays Pornography and Obscenity and A Propos of 'Lady
Chatterley's Lover', articles, and his last work Apocalypse. The
most dramatic episodes of these months were the seizure of the
Pansies manuscript, and the police raid on an exhibition of
Lawrence's paintings and the subsequent trial. The subject of his
illness becomes ominously more prominent, and Lawrence apologises
for letters which lack his customary vitality. The volume includes
an introduction, maps, illustrations, chronology and index; full
notes identify persons and explain Lawrence's allusions.
Dr Sagar believes that when we see Ted Hughes work as a whole, with
each book a stage in a psychic adventure involving new stylistic
challenge, we shall see it to be the achievement of a major poet.
In this study of Ted Hughes, Dr Sagar gives most of his attention
to individual poems, their meaning and coherence, their relation to
each other and to the poetic tradition, their sources and
background (often in mythology and folklore), and their relevance
to living in our time. He began reading Hughes in 1957 when The
Hawk in the Ruin appeared, and has followed his development closely
ever since: here, with benefit of hindsight, he attempts to retrace
that journey. A chapter is devoted to each major work.
In this comprehensive study of D. H. Lawrence's major works,
originally published in paperback in 1975, Keith Sagar traces the
development of Lawrence's vision and the 'appropriate form' which
that vision found at different periods of his life. Dr Sagar sees
Lawrence's creative life as falling into four distinct phases: a
period of gradual discovery and growth; a period of mature
achievement; a phase of moral and artistic uncertainty, even
desperation; and a regeneration to a new art and vision. The
elaboration and testing of this division, based on close and
penetrating analyses of the chosen works, produced what was perhaps
the most coherent account of Lawrence's art yet written. Each
chapter begins with a full chronology, dating the works of the
years in question in order of composition, and there is an
extensive bibliography.
In this comprehensive study of D. H. Lawrence's major works,
originally published in paperback in 1975, Keith Sagar traces the
development of Lawrence's vision and the 'appropriate form' which
that vision found at different periods of his life. Dr Sagar sees
Lawrence's creative life as falling into four distinct phases: a
period of gradual discovery and growth; a period of mature
achievement; a phase of moral and artistic uncertainty, even
desperation; and a regeneration to a new art and vision. The
elaboration and testing of this division, based on close and
penetrating analyses of the chosen works, produced what was perhaps
the most coherent account of Lawrence's art yet written. Each
chapter begins with a full chronology, dating the works of the
years in question in order of composition, and there is an
extensive bibliography.
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