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Letters of Ted Hughes

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#362337-XK14
Titel	Letters of Ted Hughes
Auteur	Hughes, ted & Christopher Reid (editor)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Faber & Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0571221394
ISBN13	9780571221394
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Overview: Ted Hughes described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world." These nearly 300 letters-selected from several thousand-show him in all his aspects: poet, husband and father, lover of the natural world, proud Englishman, and a man for whom literature was a way of being fully alive to experience. There are letters dealing with Hughes's work on classic books, from the early breakthrough Lupercal to the late, revelatory Birthday Letters. There are letters discussing, with notable frankness, his marriages to Sylvia Plath and then to Assia Wevill. After marrying Carol Orchard, in 1970, Hughes ran a farm in Dorset for several years, and there are letters touching on his interest in astrology, his strong and original views of Shakespeare, and his p... (Lees verder)assion for farming, fishing, and the environment in general. Letters to Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin situate Hughes among his peers as never before. Letters of Ted Hughes reveals the author as a prose writer of great vigor and subtlety. It deepens our understanding of-and our admiration for-this great twentieth-century poet.
Pagina's	756
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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