Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life - A Comprehensive Literary Biography by Scholar Jonathan Bate Exploring the Poet Laureate and Sylvia Plath

ISBN: 0062362445

Author: Bate, Jonathan

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Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britains most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific childrens writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry.Hughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughess inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. His book offers, for the first time, the full story of Hughess life as it was lived, remembered, and reshaped in his art.