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   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. The book was first published by Faber and Faber in 1992.

   • Author: Ted Hughes

   • Publish Year: 1992

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3. thetedhughessociety.org › rain-charmRain-Charm — The Ted Hughes Society

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   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’.

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   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.

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   Aug 12, 2024 · In the following review, Firchow gives reserved praise for the poems in Hughes's Rain-Charm for the Duchy and Other Laureate Poems.

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   This volume of poetry, first published in 1992, collected together all of the Laureate poems that Hughes had written up to that point. The volume was published at the request of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and this is one of several copies of the special edition that Hughes presented to The Queen and her family at the end of 1991.

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   What is rain-charm for the Duchy?

   • In an article published in Literary Review in March 1995, Robert Nye reviewed what he jokingly called the ‘New Selected Spells by the Royal Witch Doctor’. One of these ‘spells’ was Rain-Charm for the Duchy, Hughes’s 1984 paean to the West Country rivers, celebrating the occasion of Prince Harry’s christening.

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   What was the title of Prince Harry's 'rain-charm'?

   • 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’, ‘Rain Charm for Bringing Back the Salmon’, or simply ‘Rain-Charm’ .

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   Is Rain-Charm a laureateship poem?

   • Several reviews collected in the Emory archive deride Hughes for his acceptance of the Laureateship, and lampoon the poetry – at best vaguely mystical, at worst downright weak – which sprang from it. Yet Rain-Charm was one of the better received Laureateship pieces.

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9. archive.org › details › isbn_9780571166053Rain-charm for the Duchy : and other Laureate poems

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