Ted hughes biography jonathan bates

“Bate has written, capaciously, arrestingly, a kind of tragedy…often veers close to the poet’s singular perspective…He reminds us Ted Hughes was a marvelous poet: firstly, then fitfully, and then in a blaze near the end, and that the greatness in the work draws power from sources deeper than myth.” — Glyn Maxwell, New York Times Book Review

“Magisterially respectful of Hughes…An uncompromising biographer [who] hasn’t been swayed by interested parties…In Hughes’s life, with its echoes of Greek tragedy, Bate finds grist for a new perspective on his work.” — Christopher Benfey, The Atlantic

“An incisive, humane and deeply absorbing account of Hughes’s life and work.” — New York Times

“Remarkable…one of the very best biographies in years.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“A masterly biography.” — San Francisco Chronicle

“Jonathan Bate is a dazzling scholar, and in TED HUGHES he sheds new light on the poet and his times…Mr.

Bate embodies…the touchstone of good biography: the complete sympathy o