Godmother of the Salmon
John Bayley, 9 July 1992
‘Rain-Charm for the Duchy’ and other Laureate Poems
by Ted Hughes.
Faber, 64 pp., £12.99, June 1992,0 571 16605 9 Show More
by Ted Hughes.
Faber, 64 pp., £12.99, June 1992,
“... from Ireland, and it seemed a good idea to knock off a little ‘Horatian Ode’ to welcome the Lord Protector home. Larkin had his own wholly characteristic way of dealing with a royal occasion. In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not ... ”