Letters of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes

by Christopher Reid (Editor), Christopher Reid (Editor), Ted Hughes (Author)

Synopsis

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children); a life pared down to essentials and yet eventful, peripatetic, at times publicly controversial.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 784
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 0571221386
ISBN 13: 9780571221387
Book Overview: The Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by celebrated poet and critic Christopher Reid.

Author Bio
Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including, most recently, For and After (2003) and Mr Mouth (2006). Betwen 1991 and 1999, he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. In 2007, he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.