Phoenix

Adam and the Sacred Nine: A Cabbalistic Drama

"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)

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