The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes

by Edited by Terry Gifford

• ISBN13: 9780521197526
• ISBN10: 052119752X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and of his cultural influence being recognized. To the poetry and stories, writing for children and prose essays and reviews have been added, in recent years, the translations and letters. This Companion consolidates Hughes's life, writings and reputation. International experts from a variety of literary fields here confront the key questions posed by Hughes's work. New archival evidence is provided for fresh readings of his oeuvre with close attention to language, forms and the function of myth. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. x
Note on referencing and abbreviations	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The problem of biography	p. 14
The debates about Hughes	p. 27
Hughes and animals	p. 40
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath	p. 53
The anthropologist's uses of myth	p. 67
Hughes's social ecology	p. 81
Hughes and feminism	p. 94
Hughes and the classics	p. 107
Hughes as prose writer	p. 121
Hughes on Shakespeare	p. 135
Class, war and the Laureateship	p. 150
Hughes and his critics	p. 162
Guide to further reading	p. 175
Index	p. 181
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