Ted Hughes by Elaine Feinstein
Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Many people, including his friend Al Alvarez, have held Hughes's adultery responsible for Plath's death. Elaine Feinstein first met Hughes in 1969, and she was a good friend of his and his sister Olwen's, both of whom guarded the Plath estate. She knows many of the European and America poets who so influenced Hughes - Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Miroslav Holub, and knows the world in which both he and Plath moved.
Elaine wrote a big piece for YOU MAGAZINE which ran on 27 Octoberand we've received lots of review coverage in the paperback review columns including thefollowing: 'her concise and illuminating biography... the result is never less than enthralling'THE IRISH TIMES 'Feinstein's biograhpy shows the late Poet Laureate as a much more vulnerable and sympathetic figure than the myth all
Elaine Feinstein is a prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980 and her work has been translated into many languages. She is the author of highly praised lives of Pushkin and Ted Hughes (the first biography).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780753813577 |
| ISBN 10 | 0753813572 |
| Title | Ted Hughes |
| Author | Elaine Feinstein |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Marsh Biography Award 2003 |
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