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Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them
Turning the Table
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2022
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Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them: Turning the Table examines early draft manuscripts and published poems by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in order to uncover the compositional approaches that they held in common. Both poets not only honed the minutiae of individual poems but also reworked the shape of overall sequences in order to cultivate unique theories of an ars poetica. The book incorporates drafts of their work from Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Emory University’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Smith College’s Mortimer Rare Book Room, and the British Library. After assessing the writing and revision strategies that the poets’ early drafts reveal, the book investigates the material that they borrowed from one another and then reimagined through two major sequences: Plath’s Ariel and Hughes’s Crow. The book enhances its analysis of the poets’ shared techniques by discussing several pairs of poems from Ariel and Hughes’s Birthday Letters that respond to one another. Its final chapter also includes an evaluation of some of Hughes’s unpublished journal entries and unpublished letters that comment on his last collection’s public reception. In the conclusion, the author chronicles Hughes’s and Plath’s own remarks on their writing process as further evidence of their ars poetica.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1415-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1416-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
194
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Contents No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 30
Revision and Transformation in Hughes’s Early Work No access Pages 31 - 50
Figures and Flowers No access Pages 51 - 86
Silent Partners No access Pages 87 - 122
“This is the last” No access Pages 123 - 164
Conclusion No access Pages 165 - 170
Bibliography No access Pages 171 - 178
Index of Names and Subjects No access Pages 179 - 184
