Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected

1. Introduction
Terry Gifford

2. The Ascent of Ted Hughes: Conquering the Calder Valley
Simon Armitage

3. Ted Hughes and Cambridge
Neil Roberts

4. Mythology, Mortality and Memorialization: Animal and Human Endurance in Hughes’ Poetry
Laura Webb

5. Ted Hughes’ Inner Music
David Sergeant

6. Knowing the Bible Right Down to the Bone: Ted Hughes and Christianity
David Troupes

7. Ted Hughes’ Vacanas: The Difficulties of a Bridegroom
Ann Skea

8. ‘The Fox is a jolly farmer and we farm the same land’: Ted Hughes and Farming
David Whitley

9. Fishing for Ted
Mark Wormald

10. Traumatic Repetition in Capriccio

Lynda K. Bundtzen

11. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes: A Complex Friendship
Henry Hart

12. ‘I fear a Man of frugal Speech’: Ted Hughes and Emily Dickinson
Gillian Groszewski

13. Ted Hughes and Federico García Lorca: The Tragic Theatre of Mourning
Yvonne Reddick

14. Ted Hughes’ Poetry of Healing
Edward Hadley

15. ‘The Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes’: The Construction of a ‘Voice’ in Hughes’ Poetry Readings and Recordings
Carrie Smith

16. Suffering and Decision
Seamus Heaney

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics