Ted hughes the unauthorised life6/24/2023 ![]() At the centre of the book is Hughes's lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry. With his magnetic personality and an insatiable appetite for friendship, for love and for life, he also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet who has lived, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter-writer since John Keats. A poet of motion and force, of rivers, light and redemption, of beasts in brooding landscapes. Yet he is also a poet of deep tenderness, of restorative memory steeped in the English literary tradition. ![]() Event and animal are turned to myth in his work. ![]() He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and Crow. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A moving, fascinating biography' The Times 'Seldom has the life of a writer rattled along with such furious activity. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE ![]()
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