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Zusatztext 'This is the best short overview of Hughes's career that I've read[...]Gifford's volume will! I am sure! come to be recognised as the best starting point for anyone planning serious study of Hughes' - Laurence Coupe! Green Letters'Drawing on recently available archival research and letters! Gifford has provided richness! complexity! and new contexts to his interpretations of Hughes's writing. Gifford is also one of the few critics to offer a provocative! yet reasonable! assessment of Hughes's controversial reputation' - Carol Bere! Isle Informationen zum Autor Terry Gifford is a pioneering ecocritic and Ted Hughes scholar. He is co-author (with Neil Roberts) of Ted Hughes: A Critical Study (1981) and author of Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice (2006). He is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester, UK, and Profesor Honorario at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain. Klappentext For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This guide offers an accessible, fresh, and fascinating introduction to a major British writer whose work continues to be of crucial importance today, presenting new insights on the green dimension of Hughes' work, along with previously unpublished archive material. Zusammenfassung Surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the significant British writers of the 20th-century: Ted Hughes. This guide discusses his poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters. It provides a comprehensive account of Hughes' critical reception, separated into the major themes that have interested readers and critics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Life and Contexts 2. Works 3. Criticism Conclusion Chronology Further Reading Works by Ted Hughes Select Bibliography Index ...
