Ted Hughes. A Literary Life

Author: Roberts, Neil

Published by Macmillan, 2006 (paperback 2009)

Contents:

Introduction

1. Paradise Lost: Formation and Juvenilia
2. 'The Thought-Fox': Hughes and Cambridge
3. The Encounter of Sylvia Plath
4. Dreaming from America: Lupercal
5. Wodwo: the 'single adventure' and the death of Sylvia Plath
6. The Making of Crow
7. The 'Plath Wars'
8. The Shaman-Poet and Masculine Guilt: Gaudete and Cave Birds
9. Farmer Hughes: Moortown Diary and Season Songs
10. Return to the Calder Valley: Remains of Elmet, Wolfwatching, Elmet
11. Fisherman Hughes: River
12. The Poet Laureate
13. Writing for Children
14. Hughes as Translator
15. Poet of Mourning: Birthday Letters

Epilogue

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