Crow (poetry)
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet
Crow holds a uniquely important place in Hughes [sic] oeuvre. It heralds the ambitious second phase of his work, lasting roughly from the late sixties to the late seventies, when he turned from direct engagement with the natural world to unified mythical narratives and sequences. It was his most controversial work: a stylistic experiment which abandoned many of the attractive features of his earlier work, and an ideological challenge to both Christianity and humanism. Hughes wrote Crow, mostly between 1966 and 1969, after a barren period following the death of Sylvia Plath. He looked back on the years of work on Crow as a time of imaginative freedom and creative energy, which he felt that he never subsequently recovered. He described Crow as his masterpiece...[1]
Recurring themes draw extensively from world
It is quoted briefly in the liner notes for "My Little Town" by Paul Simon,[2] and in the epigraph of Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Crow - The Ted Hughes Society Journal". Thetedhughessociety.org. 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-275-99163-0. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge at LibraryThing
External links
- Crow at LibraryThing