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Ted Hughes
(1930 - 1998 / West Yorkshire / England)
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''Underwater eyes, an eel's
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed...
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he will lick
The fishbone bare. And can take stolen hold
On a bitch otter in a field full
Of nervous horses, but linger nowhere.
Yanked above hounds, reverts to nothing at al...
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 35-40). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ...
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''The heart beats thick,
Big trout muscle out of the dead cold;''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 33-34). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ...
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''So the self under the eye lies,
Attendant and withdrawn.''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 27-28). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ...
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Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly—
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are teari...
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. Hawk Roosting (l. 12-17). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) O...
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''I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. Hawk Roosting (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxf...
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''The mouth of the drowned dog. After long rain the land
Was sodden as the bed of an ancient lake,
Treed with iron and birdless.''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. November (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W...
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Minute after minute, aeon after aeon,
Nothing lets up or develops.
And this is neither a bad variant nor a tryout.
This is where the staring angels go through.
This is where all th...
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. Pibroch (l. 21-25). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollan...
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''The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living,''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. Pibroch (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollande...
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''The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs
Not to be changed at this date;
A life subdued to its instrument;''
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Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. Pike (l. 13-15). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford Uni...
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