{"product_id":"lupercal","title":"Lupercal","description":"\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57394077335934,"sku":"NW9780571383993","price":12.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571383993.jpg?v=1778685467","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/lupercal","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}