Ted Hughes

A Literary Life
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-58097-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Literary Lives

How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Neil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Formation and Juvenilia 'The Thought-Fox': Hughes and Cambridge The Encounter with Sylvia Plath Dreaming from America: Lupercal Wodwo: the 'Single Adventure' and the Death of Sylvia Plath The Making of Crow The 'Plath Wars' The Shaman-Poet and Masculine Guilt: Gaudete and Cave Birds Farmer Hughes: Moortown Diary and Season Songs Return to the Calder Valley: Remains of Elmet, Wolfwatching and Elmet Fisherman Hughes: River The Poet Laureate Writing for Children Hughes as Translator Mourning Plath: Birthday Letters Epilogue Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

NEIL ROBERTS is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. With Terry Gifford he published (1981), and he has also written books on Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry, Peter Redgrove, D.H. Lawrence, George Meredith and George Eliot, and edited the .