Adam and the Sacred Nine: A Cabbalistic Drama
© Ann Skea.“The whole drift is an alchemising of a phoenix out of a serpent. An awakened life out of an unawakened”
(Letter from Ted Hughes to Keith Sagar. 23 April 1980).
| PART 1 ‘Adam’(THCP 443) ‘Awake’(THCP 443) ‘The Song’(THCP 444) ‘All this time his cry’(THCP 444) ‘He had retreated’(THCP 444-5) |
PART 2 ‘And the Falcon came’(THCP 445) ‘The Skylark came’(THCP 445-6) ‘The Wild Duck’(THCP 446) ‘The Swift comes the swift’(THCP 447) ‘The Unknown Wren’(THCP 447-8) |
PART 3 ‘And Owl’(THCP 448-9) ‘The Dove Came’(THCP 449) ‘The Crow came to Adam’(THCP 449) ‘And the Phoenix has come’(THCP 450) ‘Light’(THCP 450-1) ‘Bud-tipped twig’(THCP 451) |