Euripides' Alcestis: A New Version - Hardcover

Euripides

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571202667 ISBN 13: 9780571202669

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Clean, tight book with unclipped dust jacket. Ted Hughes version. 83pp.

About this title

About the Author:

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Review:

“Hughes's poetic style if fully of beauty and pathos. Highly recommended.” ―Library Journal

“[Hughes uses] the same technique of adaptation he deployed so well in Tales from Ovid, paring Classical polysyllables to the minimum, and finding the grain of mythic significance...His portrayal of the surviving and self-chastising Admetos is acute. Whatever shades of autobiography may writhe through these lines--they belong to a drama that works.” ―Nigel Spivey, The Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571202667
• ISBN 13: 9780571202669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 83