Letters of Ted Hughes, selected and edited by Christopher Reid. Ted Hughes once described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world". He was a prolific letter-writer, and his letters capture his voice, his emotions, his ideas and his creativity. This book includes correspondence with family, friends, scholars, royalty and many others. (Nov. 2007)
Ted Hughes: Selected Translations edited by Daniel Weissbort. "Ted Hughes(1930-98), Poet Laureate from 1984, was among the most important translators in the English tradition". This book offers a wide selection of these translations.(Nov.2006)
Ted Hughes: A Literary Life by Neil Roberts. This book sets out to show how Ted Hughes's work was a reflection of his inner world and was shaped by his life experiences, especially those of his earliest years and, later, by his relationship with Sylvia Plath. (Nov.2006)
The Laughter of Foxes (2nd Edition) by Keith Sagar. This was the first study to be published after Hughes's death. It includes the background story of Crow, a Timeline of Hughes's life and work, extracts from Hughes's letters, chapters on the mythic imagination, on the poetic relationship between Hughes and Plath and on the evolution of a Hughes poem through all its manuscript drafts.(Oct.2006)
A Preview of Saint Botolph's Review No.2. Fifty years ago Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath met at the party which launched the first edition of Saint Botolph's Review. Now, a second edition has been published. It contains a previously unpublished introduction by Ted Hughes to poems by Susan Alliston. (June.2006)
Ted Hughes: Collected Poems for Children. Poems by Ted Hughes. Illustrations by Raymond Briggs (Oct.2005)
Letters To Ted. Poems by Daniel Weissbort (Oct.2002)
Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: A Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath by Lucas Myers (Feb.2001)
Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1954-1997. Ed. by Joanny Moulin (2000). This book contains a number of academic papers in English and French which discuss the poetry in Hughes' New Selected Poems
Difficulties of a Bridegroom by Ted Hughes. (1995). This book contains a selection of Ted Hughes' short stories.
George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B.Yeats by Brenda Maddox (2000)
T.S.Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon (1998). A Biography of T.S.Eliot.
Blake by Peter Achroyd (1995). A Biography of William Blake.
Mary Shelley a biography by Miranda Seymour (Nov.2001)
Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline Alexander (1997). The Remarkable Journey of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat.
The Pooh Perplex by Frederick C, Crews(1995). A Literary Joke.
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