How was Ted Hughes's poetry influenced by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, a life he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his career? This closestudy of Hughes's poetic development, now available in paperback, answers allthese questions and more. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - Formation and Juvenilia - 'The Thought-Fox': Hughes and Cambridge - The Encounter with Sylvia Plath - Dreamingfrom America: Lupercal - Wodwo : the 'Single Adventure' and the Death of Sylvia Plath - The Making of Crow - The 'Plath Wars' - The Shaman-Poet and Masculine Guilt: Gaudete and Cave Birds - Farmer Hughes: Moortown Diary and Season Songs - Return to the Calder Valley: Remains of Elmet, Wolfwatching and Elmet - Fisherman Hughes: River - The Poet Laureate - Writing for Children - Hughes asTranslator - Mourning Plath: Birthday Letters - Epilogue - Select Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58097-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés