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| Genre/Form: | Briefsammlung Records and correspondence Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Letters of Ted Hughes. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 (OCoLC)756911940 |
| Named Person: | Ted Hughes; Ted Hughes; Ted Hughes |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ted Hughes; Christopher Reid |
| ISBN: | 9780374185305 0374185301 |
| OCLC Number: | 213300732 |
| Notes: | First published: London : Faber and Faber, 2007. Includes indexes. |
| Description: | xxiv, 758 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Editor's introduction -- Note on dates -- Acknowledgements -- Ownership abbreviations -- Letters of Ted Hughes -- Index -- Index of works -- Index of recipients. |
| Other Titles: | Correspondence. |
| Responsibility: | selected and edited by Christopher Reid. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Overview: Ted Hughes described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world." These nearly 300 letters-selected from several thousand-show him in all his aspects: poet, husband and father, lover of the natural world, proud Englishman, and a man for whom literature was a way of being fully alive to experience. There are letters dealing with Hughes's work on classic books, from the early breakthrough Lupercal to the late, revelatory Birthday Letters. There are letters discussing, with notable frankness, his marriages to Sylvia Plath and then to Assia Wevill. After marrying Carol Orchard, in 1970, Hughes ran a farm in Dorset for several years, and there are letters touching on his interest in astrology, his strong and original views of Shakespeare, and his passion for farming, fishing, and the environment in general. Letters to Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin situate Hughes among his peers as never before. Letters of Ted Hughes reveals the author as a prose writer of great vigor and subtlety. It deepens our understanding of-and our admiration for-this great twentieth-century poet.
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