Essential Shakespeare

by Ted Hughes

2021-02-02 10:35:07

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . . Dickinson n... Read more

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:

Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . .

Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone.

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Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 Aug 1930 – 28 Oct 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 and was followed by ma...

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