The following pages collect information on criticism of Ted Hughes's work, including critical publications, online essays and information on conferences.
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Below you will find a chronological list of critical publications (newest publications first). For separate listings with essays and book publications only, please use the menu on the left.
The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes
Editor: Gifford, Terry
Authors: Bate, J.; Bentley, P.; Brain, T.; Brandes, R.; Corcoran, N.; Davis, A., Gifford, T.; Gill, J.; Hong, C.; Moulin, J.; Roberts, N.; Zajko, V.; ... [more]
The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Author: Clark, Heather
Published by Oxford Unversity Press, 2011 [more]
"Ted Hughes and Theatre"
Author: Supple, Tim
Published online at ann.skea.com, November 2010 [more]
Ted Hughes and Translation
Author: Weissbort, Daniel
Published by Richard Hollis, 2011 [more]
The Essential Self: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Author: Myers, Lucas
Published by Richard Hollis, 2011 [more]
"Seancing with Ted"
Author: Davids, Roy
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 12 September 2010 [more]
"What is the Truth? Ted Hughes, Childhood, Memories and Stories"
Author: Kazzer, Claas
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 12 August 2010 [more]
"Adam and the Sacred Nine: A Cabbalistic Drama"
Author: Skea, Ann
Published on Ann Skea's website ann.skea.com, 21 July 2010 [more]
"'Family relations' – Traces of a cosmology in Ted Hughes's Creation Tales"
Author: Kazzer, Claas
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, July 2010 [more]
"The Oedipus Myth in Ted Hughes's Crow"
Author: Pollard, Sophie
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 2010 [more]
"Ted Hughes and 'A Separate Little Self'"
Author: Elkin, Roger
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 2010 [more]
The Elegies of Ted Hughes
Author: Hadley, Edward
Published by Palgrave and Macmillan, 2010 [more]
Ted Hughes and Nature: 'Terror and Exultation'
Author: Sagar, Keith
Published by Fastprint Publishing, 2010
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Memories of Ted Hughes 1952–1963
Author: Huws, Daniel
Published by Richard Hollis, 2010 [more]
"Ted Hughes, Translation and Ecopoetics"
Author: Gifford, Terry
Published in Modern Poetry and Translation, 3: 2010, pp. 76–81 [more]
"Occult Energies"
Author: Skea, Ann
Published on the Translation Café website revista.mttlc.ro/94, 10 February 2010 [more]
"The Making of Birthday Letters"
Author: Davids, Roy
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 2009
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"Hidden Influences in the Poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath"
Author: Elkin, Roger
Published online at www.earth-moon.org, 2009 [more]
"Ted Hughes' Undergraduate Years at Pembroke College, Cambridge: Some Myths Demystified"
Author: Wilcockson, Collin
Published in Agenda, Vol. 44 No 4 / Vol 45 No 1, 2009 [more]
Ted Hughes (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Author: Gifford, Terry
Published by Routledge, 2009 [more]
"Ted Hughes as an Elegist: The Vegetation Deity and Fertility Rites in 'Lupercalia'"
Author: Hadley, Edward
Published on www.earth-moon.org, 2008 [more]
"Ted Hughes and 'The Zodiac in the Shape of a Crown'"
Author: Skea, Ann
Published at ann.skea.com, 2008 [more]
"A Response to the Letters of Ted Hughes"
Author: Gifford, Terry
Originally commissioned for Wolf 17, 2007, pp. 65–6 [more]
Ted Hughes. A Literary Life
Author: Roberts, Neil
Published by Macmillan, 2006 (paperback 2009) [more]
Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Transforming Poetics and Memory with Emory's Ted Hughes Archive
Author: Schuchard, Ronald (ed.)
Emory internal publication, Emory Across Academe, No. 6,
Emory University 2006.
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"Howls & Whispers: The Averse Sephiroth and the Spheres of the Qlippoth. An analysis of Ted Hughes' use of Cabbala in Howls & Whispers"
Author: Skea, Ann
On-line publication since 2005. [more]
"Birthday Letters: Poetry and Magic. An analysis of Ted Hughes' use of Tarot and Cabbala in Birthday Letters"
Author: Skea, Ann
Ongoing on-line publication since 2000; completed 2005 [more]
"'Creatures of Light'"
Author: Skea, Ann
Paper presented at Emory University in 2005, online at ann.skea.com [more]
Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons
Author: Moulin, Joanny (ed.)
Published by Routledge, 2004 [more]
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage
Author: Middlebrook, Diane
Published by Viking Adult, 2003 (paperback: Penguin 2004)
"Ted Hughes's Tabletalk - a Counterblast"
Author: Davids, Roy
Published online at www.roydavids.com [more]
Ted Hughes: A Beginner's Guide
Author: Bell, Charlie
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 [more]
"Ted Hughes (1930-1998): Before and Since"
Author: Moulin, Joanny
Published in EJES (European Journal of English Studies) April 2002
"Archives"
Author: Davids, Roy
Published in The Author and online at www.roydavids.com, 2002 [more]
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
Author: Feinstein, Elaine
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001 [more]
"The Tragic Equation: Semiotics of Myth in Ted Hughes' Shakespeare"
Author: Brlek, Tomislav
Published in Bernard, Jeff and Gloria Withalm (eds.): Mythen, Riten, Simulakra: Semiotische Perspektiven / Myths, Rites, Simulacra: Semiotic Perspectives. ... [more]
The Other Sylvia Plath
Author: Brain, Tracy
Published by Longman, 2001 [more]
Interview with Fay Godwin on Remains of Elmet and Elmet
Author: Gifford, Terry
Published in Thumbscrew, No 18, Spring 2001, pp. 114–117
"Ted Hughes and Myths for Kiddies"
Author: Moulin, Joanny
Published in Can Poetry Make Anything Happen? La poésie dans l'enseignement de l'anglais, Eds. Helen Goethals & Adolphe HABERER, Lyon: Presses Universitaires de ...
"Nachwort: Wie Dichtung entsteht."
Author: Kazzer, Claas
Published in Ted Hughes: Wie Dichtung Entsteht Essays. Insel/Suhrkamp, 2001 [more]