The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes, edited by Terry Gifford, Cambridge University Press 2011, collects essays on several aspects of Hughes's work and life and includes contributions by several well-known and a bunch of lesser known critics.
Contents:
- Chronology
- Terry Gifford: Introduction
- Joanny Moulin: The problem of biography
- Paul Bentley: The debates about Hughes
- Chen Hong: Hughes and animals
- Jo Gill: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
- Rand Brandes: The anthropologist's uses of myth
- Terry Gifford: Hughes's social ecology
- Tracy Brain: Hughes and feminism
- Vanda Zajko: Hughes and the classics
- Neil Corcoran: Hughes as prose writer
- Jonathan Bate: Hughes on Shakespeare
- Neil Roberts: Class, war and the Laureateship
- Alex Davis: Hughes and his critics