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Remains of Elmet is a collection of poems by Ted Hughes published in 1979. In this book Hughes has poetically covered the region of Elmet. [1] The book contains black and white photographs by Fay Godwin, taken in the barren hill country of West Yorkshire, Hughes's birthplace. [2]
- David Rogers, Ted Hughes
- 1979
Nov 7, 2019 · Remains of Elmet. by. Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Publication date. 1979. Topics. Elmet (England) -- Poetry. Publisher.
May 21, 1979 · First published in 1979, Remains of Elmet is a remarkable marriage of words and images. Fay Godwin's stark black and white photographs of the Calder Valley, Hughes' childhood landscape, go so well with the poems, and the whole effect is of a haunting and vaguely troubling poetic psychogeography.
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Remains of Elmet marks a departure from Hughes myth laden sequences of poetry which he produced in the 1970s. After the likes of Crow , Cave Birds and Gaudete , Remains of Elmet appears downbeat by comparison with its sparse lines of verse and bleak black and white high contrast photographs of the West Yorkshire landscape as taken by Hughes's ...
Hughes’ ability to give abstract ideas a concrete form and to present ancient philosophies in a modern context was exercised to its full in the poems of Remains of Elmet. Even the smallest detail of Hughes’ landscape is frequently both realistically evoked and of symbolic importance.
Jan 22, 2016 · In 1979 Ted Hughes published a collection of poems called Remains of Elmet specifically about this unique part of Yorkshire. Subtitled A Pennine Sequence , it was created in response to a powerful series of black and white photographs by Fay Godwin and features an iconic image of Heptonstall Church and Stoodley Pike on its cover, with shafts of ...
Remains of Elmet. “…at the dead end of a wrong direction” ROE. Between the first and the last poems of Remains of Elmet, Hughes traces the history of a society’s war with Nature and the sad misdirection of its energies. In broad outline, this history is simply told.
