Letters of Ted Hughes

Author: Hughes, Ted

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Published on 5 November 2009 by FABER & FABER.

Paperback / softback | 784 pages, Illustrations, ports
233 x 164 x 58 | 894g

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.