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William Hughes, Ted Hughes, Richard Reid, Christopher Reid: Letters of Ted Hughes (2010, Faber & Faber, Limited)

800 pages

English language

Published April 13, 2010 by Faber & Faber, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-571-22139-4
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I haven't read much biography - probably fewer than ten volumes in my life. It doesn't appeal to me that much, for no clear reason, other than a lot of my reading is driven by the urge to stimulate my imagination - which is why SF and Fantasy figure strongly on my shelves. The biographies I have read are mainly of figures who have made a significant impression on me and left me with an urge to find out more about them as a person. Doing so hasn't been a waste of time so maybe I should read more?

Volumes of letters figure even less in my reading - in fact, this is only the second such volume I've read. The reasons for this are that I fear they may be dull and that on top of my not very rational avoidance of biographical material I feel that reading them …

Subjects

  • Poets, correspondence
  • Hughes, ted, 1930-1998