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Not an Ideal Husband
At the end of his career a certain slackness and talkiness tended to replace virile lyric intensity; few of the Birthday Letters poems, for instance, achieve more than a documentary interest. Hughes himself seemed to be aware of this. ‘I keep writing this and that, but it seems pitifully little for the time I spent pursuing it,’ he wrote to his friend Lucas Myers in 1984.
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At the end of his career a certain slackness and talkiness tended to replace virile lyric intensity; few of the Birthday Letters poems, for instance, achieve more than a documentary interest. Hughes himself seemed to be aware of this. ‘I keep writing this and that, but it seems pitifully little for the time I spent pursuing it,’ he wrote to his friend Lucas Myers in 1984.
Fiona
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Not an Ideal Husband
Ted Hughes’ Alcestis
Hughes made his name as a poet of nature, and excluding the translations . . . and the self-revealing 1997 Birthday Letters, addressed to his late wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, he rarely strayed from the natural world, for which he had extraordinary imaginative sympathy (and which in turn inspired his fascination with Earth-Mother folklore and animistic magic).
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Ted Hughes’ Alcestis
Hughes made his name as a poet of nature, and excluding the translations . . . and the self-revealing 1997 Birthday Letters, addressed to his late wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, he rarely strayed from the natural world, for which he had extraordinary imaginative sympathy (and which in turn inspired his fascination with Earth-Mother folklore and animistic magic).
