HUGHES, Ted. Season Songs. London:Faber and Faber. 1985.
Tall 8vo. Bright orange cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine, illustrated orange and blue dust jacket with the Faber publisher's device; pp. 9-88; fine.
Affectionately gifted to Nick Grant from the author; "For Nick/With Love/From Ted/Christmas 1997".
As is written in the blurb, Ted Hughes remarked that his Season Songs began as children's poems but they "grew up". Structured according to season, each carrying a distinct emotive weight (with Winter characterised by silence), the concept of the collection appealing to a children's audience is still sustained in the form of mystic and fairytale themes. Earth's remarkable abundance is investigated with beauty, as is society's ever evolving relationship to the change of nature.
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