Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information TEDHUGHESINCONTEXT Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime’s reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is com- plemented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In addition, Hughes made impor- tant contributions to education, literary history, emergent environ- mentalism and debates about life writing. Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-two contributors who inform new readings of the works and conceptualise Hughes’s work within long-standing critical traditions while acknowledging a new awareness of his future importance. This collection offers consideration not only of the most important aspects of Hughes’s work but also of the most neglected. terry gifford is Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. 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Hughes’s Writing for Children 45 Lissa Paul 6. Hughes and Drama 54 Jonathan Locke Hart 7. Hughes as Literary Critic 63 Alex Davis 8. Hughes as Translator 72 Tara Bergin 9. Hughes as Correspondent 82 Joanny Moulin v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information vi Contents part iii stylistic contexts 91 10. Hughes and Voice 93 Carrie Smith 11. Hughes and Surrealism 103 Sam Perry 12. Hughes and Eastern Europeans 113 Tara Bergin 13. Hughes and the Classics 123 Roger Rees 14. Hughes’s Collaboration with Artists 133 Lorraine Kerslake part iv geocultural contexts 143 15. Hughes’s Yorkshire 145 Steve Ely 16. Hughes and America 155 Gillian Groszewski 17. Hughes and Ireland 165 Mark Wormald part v anthropological contexts 175 18. Hughes and Religion 177 David Troupes 19. Hughes and Shamanism 187 Gregory Leadbetter 20. Hughes and the Occult 197 Ann Henning Jocelyn part vi historical contexts 207 21. Hughes and the Middle Ages 209 James Robinson © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information Contents vii 22. Hughes and History 219 Daniel O’Connor 23. Hughes and War 228 Helen Melody 24. Hughes and the Laureateship 238 Neil Roberts part vii gender contexts 249 25. Hughes and Feminism 251 Laura Blomvall 26. Hughes, Masculinity and Gender Identity 261 Janne Stigen Drangsholt part viii environmental contexts 271 27. Hughes and Nature 273 Terry Gifford 28. Hughes and Agriculture 283 Jack Thacker 29. Hughes and Fishing 292 Mark Wormald 30. Hughes’s Environmental Campaigns 302 Yvonne Reddick part ix educational contexts 313 31. Hughes and Creative Writing 315 Hugh Dunkerley 32. Hughes, Anthologising and Education 325 David Whitley part x biographical contexts 335 33. Hughes’s Publication History 337 Mark Hinchliffe © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information viii Contents 34. Hughes’s Archives 347 Amanda Golden 35. Hughes and the Biographers 359 Claire Heaney 36. The Ted Hughes Myth 370 Daniel O’Connor Index 379 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information Contributors tara bergin From Dublin, Dr Bergin conducted her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky and has since published widely on the subject of poetic translation, including recent articles in Translation and Literature (2014) and Translating Holocaust Literature (2015). laura blomvall Educated at the University of Cambridge, University College London and University of York, Dr Blomvall completed her PhD on the limits of lyric poetry under the supervision of Derek Attridge and Hugh Haughton. A previous article entitled, ‘Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: Biography, Poetry and Ethics’, appeared in The Ted Hughes Society Journal IV.1 (Summer 2014). heather clark Dr Clark is the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962– 1972. Her biography of Sylvia Plath is forthcoming. She is Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (2016–17) and Visiting Research Scholar at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Graduate Center, CUNY. alex davis Professor Davis is Professor of English at University College Cork. He is the author of A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000) and co-editor, with Lee M. Jenkins, of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007) and A History of Modernist Poetry (2015). janne stigen drangsholt Dr Drangsholt is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language Studies at the University of Stavanger. She has published three novels in Norwegian, among other critical and creative works. Her most recent publication is an article ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42555-1 — Ted Hughes in Context Edited by Terry Gifford Frontmatter More Information x List of Contributors entitled, ‘Disclosing the World: Parousia in the Poetry of Ted Hughes’, in Literature and Theology. hugh dunkerley Dr Dunkerley’s most recent article is ‘Ted Hughes and the Ecological Sublime’,inThe Ted Hughes Society Journal VI.1. His poetry collection Hare will be followed by Kin in 2019. His prize- winning lecture, ‘Some Thoughts on Poetry and Fracking’, was deliv- ered at the 2016 Hay International Festival. He is Reader in Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry and runs the MA program in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. steve ely Dr Ely has written five books of poetry and a novel. His book, Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, was published in 2015. Dr Ely teaches Creative Writing at Huddersfield University, where he is Director of the Ted Hughes Network. terry gifford Professor Gifford has written or edited seven books on Ted Hughes, including Ted Hughes (2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Chair of The Ted Hughes Society, he is Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. amanda golden Dr Golden is Assistant Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology. She previously held post-doctoral fellow- ships at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She is the author of Annotating Modernism and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton. gillian groszewski Dr Groszewski wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Ted Hughes and America at Trinity College Dublin. She has written book chapters on Hughes and Emily Dickinson for Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected (2013) and on ‘Reading Ted Hughes through Structuralisms’ for Ted Hughes: A New Macmillan Casebook (2014). Dr Groszewski was president of The Ted Hughes Society and editor of The Ted Hughes Society Journal from 2013 to 2015.