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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 ...
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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.
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.
Jun 22, 1992 · - Rain-Charm for the Duchy, pg. 1-4 * * * 1. X-RAY Forty years Invisibly The spine of a people. Pillar Of the scales Where Left and Right In alternation Tremble. The fulcrum Behind her eyes. Forty years Weighing The people. These equably British In two mind or Suspended Hover Bound by neither So free Upright Level - Envied. * 2. FALSTAFF Born ...
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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 ...
