Ted Hughes

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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted

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Textual Features Liz Lochhead
Revelation, based on a childhood memory, presents a young girl's encounter with a black bull—immense, / his edges merging with the darkness.
Lochhead, Liz. Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems 1967-1984. Polygon, 2003.
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The bull seems like an incarnation of evil—this antidote...
Textual Features Susan Hill
This is a remarkably informal quarterly: the sketch on its cover shows a bouncing mad-hatter figure with a bunch of flowers in his hand and a pile of books on his head. While endearingly open...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Critic Deryn Rees-Jones discerns widely varied influences on CAD 's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth , Robert Browning , T. S. Eliot , Auden , Dylan Thomas , Larkin , and Ted Hughes ...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
At the time of her death SP had completed a substantial portion of a novel she had tentatively titled Double Exposure.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Harper and Row, 1979, pp. 1-9.
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The novel portrayed the deceitful relationship of, to all outward appearances, a...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Hughes was pressured to publish SP 's work shortly after her death. Exercising his copyright control as literary executor, he omitted fourteen of the forty-one poems which Plath had prepared in a collection she had...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
An American edition with further selections appeared in 1979.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
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Ted Hughes wrote the introduction to the US edition, in which he discussed Plath's prose writing. The still-life graphic artist in her was loyal...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB 's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes and Vernon Scannell ) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland ). She began...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF 's Ted Hughes : The Life of a Poet was the first biography to appear of this controversial figure.
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Morrison, Blake. “Keeper of a Stubborn Faith”. Guardian Weekly, 27 Oct. 2001.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Intimate or upsetting passages were censored by Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn Hughes . Ted Hughes has described Plath's journal writing as generally negative self-castigation, or a means of rallying her determination to get...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Of the journals for the last two years of Plath's life, her husband destroyed one part. He said later that he wanted to protect their children, thinking of forgetfulness as essential to survival.
qtd. in
Rose, Jacqueline. “So many lives, so little time for a desperate poet”. Guardian Weekly, 13–19 Apr. 2000, p. 17.
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The...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF followed her life of Pushkin the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney ,...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
JC edited for the 1970 Camden Festival a volume of twelve specially commissioned and previously unprinted poems, entitled Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day, published through the Poets' Trust . This collection (whose cover gave...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published what one critic described as a kind of soap-opera biography or literary thriller about Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes , and Assia Wevill , The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted.
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Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 6, Mar. 2003, pp. 1-4.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP and Ted Hughes recorded Poets in Partnership, a twenty-minute radio interview, for the series Two of a Kind.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
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