Letters of Ted Hughes

by Ted Hughes

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374185301
• ISBN13: 9780374185305
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 758 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.2"