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Ted Hughes: A Literary Life
Neil Roberts
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Description for Ted Hughes: A Literary Life
Paperback. 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 close study of Hughes's poetic development, now available in paperback, answers all these questions and more. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic development.
How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close study of Hughes's poetic development.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Literary Lives
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230580978
SKU
V9780230580978
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Neil Roberts
NEIL ROBERTS is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. With Terry Gifford he published Ted Hughes: A Critical Study (1981), and he has also written books on Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry, Peter Redgrove, D.H. Lawrence, George Meredith and George Eliot, and edited the Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry.
Reviews for Ted Hughes: A Literary Life
'Ted Hughes: A Literary Life is a masterly account of Hughes' career as a writer, of the influences which formed him, of the cost of the literary life in precluding the more spontaneous life of a farmer or fisherman. Neil Roberts draws on a long and deep familiarity with all Hughes' published work, and on the extensive collections of unpublished ... Read more