Ted Hughes (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Author: Gifford, Terry

Published by Routledge, 2009

Terry Gifford is author, with Neil Roberts of Ted Hughes: A Critical Study (1981). Over the years he has written numerous essays on Ted Hughes, focussing on ecocriticism.

Contents

Introduction

I: Life and contexts

• The childhood to undergraduate years (1930-56)
• The Plath years (1956-63)
• The Assia period (1963-69)
• From marriage to the Laureateship (1970-84)
• The Laureate years (1984-98)

2: Works

• The Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal
• Wodwo
• Crow and Cave Birds
• Gaudete
• Remains of Elmet and Elmet
• Moortown
• Season Songs and Flowers and Insects
• River
• Wolfwatching
• Rain-Charm for the Duchy and other Laureate Poems
• Birthday Letters, Howls and Whispers and Capriccio
• Stories
• Children's works
• Criticism and letters
• Translations
• Plays

3: Criticism

• Reputations
• Language
• Myth
• Laureateship, history and politics
• Hughes and Plath
• Ecology
• Conclusion

4: Chronology

• Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index