{"product_id":"9780571383993-lupercal","title":"Lupercal","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTed Hughes's extraordinary second collection, reissued in its iconic original jacket, to mark twenty-five years since the poet's death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLupercal\u003c\/i\u003e was Ted Hughes's second collection, containing some of his most brilliant animal poetry.  It confirmed his reputation as a major talent in British poetry.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hughes has found his own voice, created his own artistic world and has emerged as a poet of the first importance . What Ted Hughes has done is to take a limited, personal theme and, by an act of immensely assured poetic skill, has broadened it until it seems to touch upon nearly everything that concerns us.' Al Alvarez, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, 27 March, 1960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn language that is by now utterly distinctive, the poems both describe and deliver a kind of psychic shock. Hughes's singularity of vision provides a ready symbiosis between theme and subject - the brute survival instinct of 'Hawk Roosting' or 'Pike', for instance; the rapturous attention bestowed upon 'An Otter' or 'The Bull Moses'; the pervasive legacy of human history that can be seen to saturate a Hughesian landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLupercal\u003c\/i\u003e is as vital and urgent today as it was when it was first published, its edict, implicit in every poem: to wake up, to pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40938600824929,"sku":"9780571383993","price":11.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36338759.jpg?v=1759442479","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571383993-lupercal","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}