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I1•i1mnI 3 9076 00278 7377 GAN $45.00 Ted Hughes described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world." From several thou - sand letters, his longtime editor Christopher Reid has selected nearly three hundred, which show him in all his aspects: poet, husband and father, lover of the natural world, proud En - glishman, and a man for whom literature was a way of being fully alive to experience. There are letters dealing with Hughes's work on his classic books, from the early breakthrough Lupercal to the wonder-working Crow and 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 report·, l, · , , from both farmyard and desk-letters touch ing on his interest in astrology, his strong and original views of Shakespeare. ;i,,,1 I ·,:,, -, , for fishing and for <. ..unnw,, .. cTil'.· Letters to his close frienu . , .. : · .. • a! <.:\ to Philip Larkin (his predecessor.,. · ng:. · best-known poet) situate Hughes a11,11, l11., peers as never before. Letters of Ted Hughes reveals the author as ;i correspondent of grt>.it \ i · ,,. ~,.,rl ~ubtlety. ,, I j n ,,11r 1111d r t 1 1111,ll )Ill, \f 11t1 II t I Go gle Ori Digitized by UNIVERSI Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN THE WORKS OF TED HUGHES POETRY PROSE THE HAWK IN THE RAIN POETRY IN THE MAKING LUPERCAL A DANCER TO GOD WODWO SHAKESPEARE AND THE GODDESS OF COMPLETE BEING CROW WINTER POLLEN: Occasional Prose GAUDETE DIFFICULTIES OF A BRIDEGROOM MOORTOWN MOORTOWN DIARY FOR CHILDREN FLOWERS AND INSECTS HOW THE WHALE BECAME WOLFWATCHING MEET MY FOLKS! RAIN-CHARM FOR THE DUCHY THE EARTH-OWL AND OTHER MOON THREE BOOKS: Remains of Elmet, PEOPLE Cave Birds, River NESSIE, THE MANNERLESS MONSTER ELMET (with photographs by Fay Godwin) THE COMING OF THE KINGS NEW SELECTED POEMS 1957-1994 THE IRON MAN TALES FROM OVID MOON-WHALES BIRTHDAY LETTERS SEASON SONGS COLLECTED POEMS UNDER THE NORTH STAR FFANGS THE VAMPIRE BAT AND THE SENECA'S OEDIPUS KISS OF TRUTH WEDEKIND'S SPRING AWAKENING TALES OF THE EARLY WORLD LORCA'S BLOOD WEDDING THE IRON WOMAN RACINE'S PHfDRE THE DREAMFIGHTER AND OTHER THE ORESTEIA OF AESCHYLUS CREATION TALES ALCESTIS COLLECTED ANIMAL POEMS, Vols. 1-4 SELECTED POEMS OF SHAGGY AND SPOTTY EMILY DICKINSON THE MERMAID'S PURSE SELECTED VERSE OF SHAKESPEARE THE CAT AND THE CUCKOO THE RATTLE BAG COLLECTED POEMS FOR CHILDREN (edited with Seamus Heaney) ( illustrated by Raymond Briggs) THE SCHOOLBAG (edited with Seamus Heaney) SELECTED TRANSLATIONS (edited by Daniel Weissbort) Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LETTERS OF TED HUGHES Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LETTERS OF TED HUGHES SELECTED AND EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER REID FARRAR. STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Leners copyright © 2007 by The Estate of Ted Hughes Introduction and selection copyright © 2007 by Christopher Reid All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Originally published in 2007 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First American edition, 2008 Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgements for ownership of the original letters are noted in the text. A list of ownership abbreviations can be found on pages xxiii-xxiv. illustration credits can be found on pages 757-758. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. [Correspondence. Selections] Leners of Ted Hughes / selected and edited by Christopher Reid. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18530-5 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-374-18530-1 (alk. paper) Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Correspondence. 2. Poets, English- 1. 20th century-Correspondence. I. Reid, Christopher, 1949- II. Title. PR6058.U37Z48 2008 821'.914--dc22 [BJ 2008027507 www.fsgbooks.com I 3 5 7 9 IO 8 6 4 2 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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