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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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Intimate letters reveal Hughes’s private but passionate life.
Who is this book for?
If you’re fascinated by Ted Hughes’s poetry and his personal journey, this collection of his letters offers a rare glimpse into his inner world. It’s like having a conversation with the poet himself, revealing how he thought, loved, and engaged with the world around him. Fans of literary life stories will find this particularly compelling and insightful.
