Ted Hughes: 7 Poems from "Remains of Elmet"

Published: April 18, 2021, 11:52 p.m.

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An episode from 4/18/21: A reading of seven poems from Ted Hughes\'s 1979 collection, Remains of Elmet (they can also be found in his Collected Poems). These poems are among the most autobiographical Hughes ever wrote, as he watched the landscape of his youth become destroyed by industry:

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  • The Trance of Light
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  • Hill-Stone was Content
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  • Remains of Elmet
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  • The Ancient Briton Lay under His Rock
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  • Heptonstall
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  • Widdop
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  • Cock-Crows
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