The laughter of foxes : a study of Ted Hughes
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The laughter of foxes : a study of Ted Hughes
（Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards）
Liverpool University Press, 2006
2nd rev. ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Laughter of Foxes was the first study to be published after Hughes' death, and therefore the first to survey the whole of Hughes' achievement, including Birthday Letters. It contains a great deal of new information, including extracts from Hughes' 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 Hughes' 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.
Table of Contents
Epigraph
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
A Timeline of Hughes' Life and Work, by Ann Skea
1. The Mythic Imagination
2. From Prospero to Orpheus
3. The Evolution of 'The Dove Came'
4. From World of Blood to World of Light
Appendix The Story of Crow
Select Bibliography
Index of Works by Ted Hughes
General Index
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