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Spring will marry you. A promise Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes O get your house ready Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day? In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and catch the spring (but she's elusive); to take a closer look at the March calf; to listen to the happiness of the summer grass; and to notice the 'weak-neck snowdrops' in winter. Earth is revealed in all its surprising richness and rawness, and so is humankind's own constantly changing relationship with the seasons. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0670627259
ISBN13:9780670627257
Release Date:October 1975
Publisher:Viking Books for Young Readers
Length:77 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Age Range:8 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 3 to 7
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Rated 5 starsSome of Ted Hughes' Best
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This is a masterful collection of poems, by a poet working with a subject matter he had mastered and revisited for most of his life: the world of animals, plants and nature. We find here what we would expect: Hughes strong, masculine prose, but peppered with surprises: a calf is "shut up in his hopeful religion" the spring's first flowers are "like firework stubs." In the tumult of a roaring natural world, there are moments...
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