The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify. Encompassing a broad range of themes,

The Grief of Influence follows Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes through alternating periods of collaboation and competition, showing how each poet forged a voice bot

The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poet

An examination of the nature and function of pastoral elegies in post-1960 British and Irish poetry.