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Mark Wormald
It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.
He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was…
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Ted Hughes
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes’s poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition
‘To read [Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends’. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you…
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work.
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Ted Hughes's extraordinary second collection, reissued in its iconic original jacket, to mark twenty-five years since the poet's death.
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Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm’s revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant
Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets' archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that…
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Ted Hughes,Ovid
The late Poet Laureate presents recreations of 24 passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , including the stories of Phaeton, Actaon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.
Terry Gifford (School of English & Creative Studies, WELLS)
This collection of original essays by an international team of Hughes scholars demonstrates afresh how key contextual and theoretical approaches to the poet’s work serve to illuminate the texts. Part…
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Terry Gifford
Surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the significant British writers of the 20th-century: Ted Hughes. This guide discusses his poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters…
In the Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical…
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes’s classic selection of Sylvia Plath’s poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry. Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing…
The award-winning illustrated edition of Ted Hughes’ classic tale in paperback.
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath’s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
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Stunning illustrations by Chris Mould make this one of the most exciting editions of The Iron Man to be published.
A stunning, foiled hardback gift edition of the much-loved classic.
Keith Sagar
This study explores Hughes' Hughes lifelong concern for language and his use of mythology and history, while examining his poetic achievements, together with his writing for children and his experiments…
Sandie Byrne
This Reader’s Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes’ poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne…
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as ‘excellent training for conversation with the world’, and he was to become a prolific master of this art which…
E. Hadley
The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes’ poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify. Encompassing a broad range of themes, from the decline of…
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This selection includes correspondence from Hughes’s marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her.
Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of Hughes’s work, and conceptualize it within long-standing critical traditions with a new awareness of his posthumous importance…
David Troupes (University of Sheffield)
Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets, and this book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith. It will be of interest…
A collection of essays dealing with different aspects of Ted Hughes’s engagement with the culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Hughes is revealed as a leading figure in…
Dr Sagar believes that when we see Ted Hughes’ work as a whole, with each book a stage in a psychic adventure involving new stylistic challenge.
Dr Paul Bentley (University of St. Mark and St. John, UK)
Ted Hughes is widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry, but the impact of Hughes’s class background on his work has received little attention. This is the first…
A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and…
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Yvonne Reddick
This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer. Drawing on the rapidly-growing interest in poetry and the environment, the book deploys insights…
The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices…
Neil Roberts
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…
The first since Hughes’ death, this collection gathers essays by most major international Hughes scholars, challenging traditional critical reception and acknowledging the impossibility of studying Hughes without reference to Plath.
Dr Paul Bentley
The poems in River follow a series of rivers through the course of a year, describing their sundry landscapes and animal life.
Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick UK)
A biography of poet Ted Hughes that includes … new information about his relationship with Sylvia Plath, written while consulting the just-opened Hughes archives in the British Library and at…
Jonathan Bate
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE ‘Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted…
Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the…
-A selection of animal poems from the seminal British poet, Ted Hughes—
Elaine Feinstein
[The] biography that needed to be written, an attempt to set the record straight and clear the air. -The New York Times Book Review
The first biography of the former Poet Laureate, famous for his marriage to Sylvia Plath, the subject of his bestseller, BIRTHDAY LETTERS, which has sold over 200,000 copies in hardback.
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Ted Hughes,Ted Hughes
A Ted Hughes Bestiary is a selection of some of Ted Hughes’s animal poems, chosen by Alice Oswald. ‘Cold, delicately as the dark snow. A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf.’…
