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Poetry in the Making: An Anthology Paperback – January 1, 1967

by Ted Hughes (Author)

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Drawn from Ted Hughes's celebrated programs for the BBC's "Listening and Writing" series, Poetry in the Making is a fresh, student-friendly discussion of what Hughes calls "imaginative writing." Offering generous citations from the work of several English-speaking, mostly modern or contemporary poets--including Hopkins, Dickinson, Eliot, Larkin, Plath, and himself--Hughes provides a useful and readable primer on "the kind of [poetry] writing children can do without becoming false to themselves." Like Kenneth Koch's classic Wishes, Lies, and Dreams, Poetry in the Making presents new ideas on how children and other beginners might best compose their own poems while also presenting candid, and more general, insights that all students and scholars of the art or craft of verse will find inspiring.

And although these pieces were primarily intended to help students improve their creative writingn abilities, they are also an effective introduction to Hughes's own work and the influences other writers have had on him. Hughes, who was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II at the time of his death 1998, casually and colorfully discusses how he came to write, what inspires him (and why), and the difficulties that he (and other writers) confront when writing.

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"In a series of chapters built around poems by a number of writers including himself . . . [Hughes] explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals,' 'Wind and Weather,' and 'Writing about People.' The purpose throughout is to lead on, via a discussion of the poems (which he does with riveting skill), to some direct encouragement to the [students] to think and write for themselves. He makes the whole venture seem enjoyable, and somehow urgent."--The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

The British poet, translator, author, and critic Ted Hughes, born in 1930, wrote more than forty books, including, in the last decade of his life, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being; Tales from Ovid; verse adaptations of Aeschylus's Oresteia, Racine's Phèdre, and Euripedes' Alcestis; and the bestselling Birthday Letters. Hughes served as Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II from 1984 until his death in 1998.

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber (January 1, 1967)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780571090761
ISBN-13: 978-0571090761
ASIN: 0571090761
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,695,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3981 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Genres & Styles > Poetry
- #4937 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Rhetoric
- #25040 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory

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Basis of Poetry

March 30, 2008

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The first thing to say as far as recommending the book is that most of the best parts are in "Winter Pollen", the excellent collection of Hughes' essays edited by William Scammell, which is all in all a better, bigger book.

This book is programs he wrote and read on the BBC in the mid-sixties. They are talks directed to children about writing poetry. They would have been incomprehensible to most school age kids I know but this is a different age and country, and I imagine that his encouragement may have been a real benefit to young listeners. And a good part of his encouragement has to do with reflecting on the mystery of existence, as children do. It is a counter-Educational point of view, Education having as its ideal of an answer for every question, or if not an answer, an attitude. Anyway, he encourages the exploration the mysteries of sensory life, and the mysteries of thought and feeling, and the great generally unnoticed difference that exists between experience and the words we represent it with - (this last is in "Winter Pollen").

So it's not really about the writing of poetry so much as it is about Jesus' admonition that we must become as little children.

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April 2, 2017

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Superb. Hughes in his essence and his beginning. A must-read for teachers and writers.

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Good little book

August 2, 2008

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This book was recommended to me by my mentor when I was in graduate school. While more complete Hughes writings on poetry are available, this little volume gets all the major points of writing poetry, although you do have to get past that his target was pre-teens. The notes for teachers are also valuable in that it doesn't have to be used as a teaching plan, but more like a strategy for the new writer to work on the skills that he's talking about. I like this book because it's quick, not terribly expensive, and pretty much gets to the point. Good for the new writer.

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