Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Ascent of Ted Hughes: Conquering the Calder Valley; Simon Armitage 2. Hughes and Cambridge; Neil Roberts 3. Mythology, Mortality and Memorialisation: Animal and Human Endurance in Hughes' Poetry; Laura Webb 4. Hughes's Inner Music; David Sergeant 5. Knowing the Bible Right Down to the Bone: Ted Hughes and Christianity; David Troupes 6. Hughes's Vacanas: The Difficulties of a Bridegroom; Ann Skea 7. 'The Fox is a jolly farmer and we farm the same land': Ted Hughes and Farming; David Whitley 8. Fishing for Ted; Mark Wormald 9. Traumatic Repetition in Capriccio; Lynda Bundtzen 10. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes: A Complex Friendship; Henry Hart 11. 'I fear a man of frugal speech': Hughes and Emily Dickinson; Gillian Groswezski 12. Ted Hughes and Federico García Lorca: the Tragic Theatre of Mourning; Yvonne Reddick 13. Hughes: Illness; Edward Hadley 14. 'The Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes': The Construction of a 'voice' in Hughes's Poetry Readings and Recordings; Carrie Smith 15. Suffering and Decision; Seamus Heaney Bibliography Index