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Letters of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Christopher Reid

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.

Classification : Diaries, Letters & Journals
Pub Date : NOV 5, 2009
Imprint : Faber Non-Fiction
Page Extent : 800
Binding : TPB
ISBN : 9780571221394
Price : INR 2,499

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and The Song of Lunch. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.

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