Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected

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Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• Notes on Contributors (p. x)
• List of Abbreviations (p. xiii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 The Ascent of Ted Hughes: Conquering the Calder Valley (p. 6)
• 2 Ted Hughes and Cambridge (p. 17)
• 3 Mythology, Mortality and Memorialization: Animal and Human Endurance in Hughes' Poetry (p. 33)
• 4 Ted Hughes' Inner Music (p. 48)
• 5 Knowing the Bible Right Down to the Bone: Ted Hughes and Christianity (p. 64)
• 6 Ted Hughes' Vacanas: The Difficulties of a Bridegroom (p. 81)
• 7 'The Fox is a jolly farmer and we farm the same land': Ted Hughes and Farming (p. 96)
• 8 Fishing for Ted (p. 112)
• 9 Traumatic Repetition in Capriccio (p. 130)
• 10 Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes: A Complex Friendship (p. 145)
• 11 æI fear a Man of frugal Speech': Ted Hughes and Emily Dickinson (p. 160)
• 12 Ted Hughes and Federico Garcia Lorca: The Tragic Theatre of Mourning (p. 177)
• 13 Ted Hughes' Poetry of Healing (p. 194)
• 14 'The Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes': The Construction of a 'Voice' in Hughes' Poetry Readings and Recordings (p. 205)
• 15 Suffering and Decision (p. 221)
• Bibliography (p. 238)
• General Index (p. 247)
• Index of Works (p. 253)