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The laughter of foxes : a study of Ted Hughes / Keith Sagar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sagar, Keith, 1934-2013.
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies.
- Liverpool English texts and studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, English.
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hughes, Ted.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 2nd rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A timeline of Hughes' life and work / Ann Skea
- Ch. 1. The mythic imagination
- Ch. 2. From Prospero to Orpheus
- Ch. 3. The evolution of 'The dove came'
- Ch. 4. From world of blood to world of light
- App. The story of crow.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-78138-702-8
- 1-84631-347-3
- OCLC:
- 476209904
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