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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
Elaine Feinstein
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Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, minor edge wear to dustwrapper. Signed and inscribed by author to previous owner
Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology and a fascination with primitive cultures. But it is for his marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath that he is best known. Their seven-year marriage marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Birthday Letters, a sequence of lyrics cast as a continued conversation with Plath, shows how electric ... Read more
Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology and a fascination with primitive cultures. But it is for his marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath that he is best known. Their seven-year marriage marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Birthday Letters, a sequence of lyrics cast as a continued conversation with Plath, shows how electric ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780297646013
SKU
KKD0007697
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Ref
99-1
About Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein is a prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980 and her work has been translated into many languages. She is also to write the life of Anna Akhmatova for Weidenfeld.
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