In this video three Pembroke people - a Fellow, a PhD candidate and a final-year undergraduate - discuss their work getting to grips with Ted Hughes and his poetry.
Thanks so much. I am rereading my Ted hughes, and each round, as I age, I see different things. Love the insights all three presenters offer. God bless and may you all go far.
Graves and the White Goddess always behind. Ted Hughes was never misogynistic, on the contrary, he idealised women, but sought them as if in an Arthurian Quest. He never quite understood women, definitely. But he was the absolute opposite of a misogynist.
Ted Hughes central preoccupation in all his poetry is to express a vitality modern man, with his material cravings and hyper rationality has lost. The mythological content in his poetry is an attempt to reconnect us to the psychodynamic aspect of our natures.
"Indubitably" one of the great 20th century poets (the subtitle says 21st), though I can easily think of a dozen better, in English. Almost all of his best poetry is contained in Lupercal and Tales From Ovid. "Known notoriously as the husband of Sylvia Plath" - yet Plath would not ever have been known had she not married him, and then committed suicide (her own style owes much to him). But the man at the start called him "a Pembroke poet" - in what sense? I was curious to hear what the ladies, students of Hughes, said afterwards, and would be curious to learn what mythical substrata is at work.
Thanks so much. I am rereading my Ted hughes, and each round, as I age, I see different things. Love the insights all three presenters offer. God bless and may you all go far.
Read his autobiography by Keith M sagar
Graves and the White Goddess always behind. Ted Hughes was never misogynistic, on the contrary, he idealised women, but sought them as if in an Arthurian Quest. He never quite understood women, definitely. But he was the absolute opposite of a misogynist.
Are the dissertations of Katherine Robinson and Molly Moss available to read? I would love to read them.
Good chat about Hughes.
Ted Hughes central preoccupation in all his poetry is to express a vitality modern man, with his material cravings and hyper rationality has lost. The mythological content in his poetry is an attempt to reconnect us to the psychodynamic aspect of our natures.
Flattened roadkill on my morning runs always makes me think of Ted Hughes
Awesome
Am searching for his poem September
Woooooooooo . It was really great
thank you beautifully spoken God bless you amen
yes very interesting
Nice commentary
IF you see how older cultures got their wisdom, it is from nature.
"Indubitably" one of the great 20th century poets (the subtitle says 21st), though I can easily think of a dozen better, in English. Almost all of his best poetry is contained in Lupercal and Tales From Ovid. "Known notoriously as the husband of Sylvia Plath" - yet Plath would not ever have been known had she not married him, and then committed suicide (her own style owes much to him). But the man at the start called him "a Pembroke poet" - in what sense? I was curious to hear what the ladies, students of Hughes, said afterwards, and would be curious to learn what mythical substrata is at work.