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The Unauthorised Life
Harper
October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
Featuring: Ted Hughes
672 pages
ISBN: 0062362437
EAN: 9780062362438
Kindle: B00X3N0NGC
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Non-Fiction Biography
Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers
of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most
important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of
nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in
brooding landscapes. With an equal gift for poetry and
prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history,
he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed
as the greatest English letter-writer 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thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and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
Hughes's 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 Hughes's
life as it was lived, remembered, and reshaped in his art.
It is a book that honors, though not uncritically, 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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