SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at
times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the
poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long
time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom has the life of a writer rattled
along with such furious activity ... A moving, fascinating
biography' The Times Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the
greatest writers of the twentieth century. He is one of Britain's
most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and
Crow. Event and animal are turned to myth in his work. Yet he is
also a poet of deep tenderness, of restorative memory steeped in
the English literary tradition. A poet of motion and force, of
rivers, light and redemption, of beasts in brooding landscapes.
With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as
capacious as any poet who has lived, he was also a prolific
children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English
letter-writer since John Keats. With his magnetic personality and
an insatiable appetite for friendship, for love and for life, he
also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. At the
centre of the book is Hughes's lifelong quest to come to terms with
the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, the saddest and most
infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry. Ted Hughes
left behind him 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unpublished poems and memorandum books that make up an almost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 Hughes's inner life, preserved by him for
posterity. Renowned scholar Sir Jonathan Bate has spent five years
in his archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. His book
offers for the first time the full story of Ted Hughes's life as it
was lived, remembered and reshaped in his art. It is a book that
honours, though not uncritically, Ted Hughes's poetry and the art
of life-writing, approached by his biographer with an honesty
answerable to Hughes's own.
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