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Renowned scholar Sir Jonathan Bate has spent five years in his archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, his book offers for the first time the...
28 wrz 2022 · One of Ted Hughes’s most important books is his edition of the Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, published in 1981. There are few precedents - only Mary Shelley springs immediately to mind - for a creative artist taking on the academic role of textual editor of their dead spouse’s works.
Renowned scholar Sir Jonathan Bate has spent five years in his archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 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.
13 paź 2015 · A biography by Jonathan Bate of Britain’s longtime poet laureate and yes, Sylvia Plath’s too-handsome husband.
10 paź 2015 · Jonathan Bate of Oxford University weighs the beauty and tragedy of this life in a new biography (disavowed by the Hughes estate) called Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. He tells NPR's Scott...
25 wrz 2016 · Surveying the slightest of poems published in the most private of presses, to Hughes’ scene-shaking, blockbusting public addresses, Jonathan Bate’s Unauthorised Life is a big book, from a big scholar, on a huge poet; accordingly, it is far from partisan bickering. But rather than moving beyond something many see as being ‘all over ...
14 paź 2015 · In an exculpatory narrative, Jonathan Bate tries to reverse the momentum of literary history, making Plath the wife of Ted Hughes, poet laureate and winner of virtually all the important...
