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64. ISBN. 978-0571166053. Rain-charm for the Duchy is a book of poems by Ted Hughes. The book contains poems written by Hughes during his tenure as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, from 1984. The poems in the book celebrate royal occasions. [1] [2] The book was first published by Faber and Faber in 1992. [3]
- Ted Hughes
- 1992
Rain-Charm focuses more on storms and salmon than royal baptisms, more on the land of the Duchy than on the Royal Family itself. Its finished title was ‘Rain-Charm for the Duchy: A Blessed, Devout Drench for the Christening of His Royal Highness Prince Harry’. Yet in early typescripts, it was entitled ‘After the Five Month Drought ...
Description. This volume of poetry, first published in 1992, collected all of the Laureate poems Hughes had written since the start of his laureateship in 1984. This copy is one of seven presented by Hughes to Queen Elizabeth II and her family, it is inscribed by the author. It is one of the initial special edition run of 280 copies.
With a Crown at the hub. To keep it whole. Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984, charged with chronicling in verse the births, marriages and deaths of the Royal Family. He filled the post until his own death in 1998. The poems he wrote as laureate, collected in Rain-Charm for the Duchy, are often criticised as stylistically poor and have ...
Rain Charm for the Duchy collects the poems Ted Hughes wrote as Poet Laureate, poems which call on Hughes's full powers, embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire.
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Ted Hughes. Rain Charm for the Duchy collects the poems Ted Hughes wrote as Poet Laureate, poems which call on Hughes’s full powers, embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Buy from. Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order. Format.
