Letters of Ted Hughes

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. 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, at times publicly controversial.

• | Author: Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Nov 05, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571221394
• | ISBN-10: 0571221394