"Our Chaucer"

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the politics of medieval reading

James Robinson

pp. 143-159

in: Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford (eds), Ted Hughes, nature and culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

In the last decade of his life, Ted Hughes found himself in a rhetorically uncomfortable position. Starting with his New Selected Poems, Hughes had published a run of books which arguably secured his poetic reputation, most prominent amongst which were his final two Whitbread Award-winning collections, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters.