The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9781846313479
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

The Laughter of Foxes was the first study to be published after HughesOCO death, and therefore the first to survey the whole of HughesOCO achievement, including Birthday Letters . It contains a great deal of new information, including extracts from HughesOCO letters, and the first publication of the background story of Crow. There are chapters on the mythic imagination, on the poetic relationship of Hughes and Plath, and on the evolution of a Hughes poem through all its manuscript drafts. But the main purpose of the book is to attempt an adequate reading of HughesOCO poetry, revealing the underlying quest which transformed his imagination, leading him by painful stages from a vision of a world made of blood to a vision of a world made of light."


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