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Letters of Ted Hughes
Hardback
Main Details
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Letters of Ted Hughes
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ted Hughes
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Edited by Christopher Reid
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:784 | Dimensions(mm): Height 241,Width 164 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780571221387
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Classifications | Dewey:821.54 |
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Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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Publication Date |
1 November 2007 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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, and at times publicly controversial.
Author Biography
Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including, most recently, For and After (2003) and Mr Mouth (2006). Betwen 1991 and 1999, he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. In 2007, he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.
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