(The) Poetry of Ted Hughes : history, myth, identity / by Amzed Hossein

Includes appendix, notes and references, bibliography and index

The Literary scene The movement poetry The emergence of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes and tradition The sociopolitical scene An age of consolidation Class and provincial values Little England The economic recovery Ted Hughes: Vitality, not violence A psychotic democracy The challenge of a permissive society Feminism, multiculturalism, primitivism The Hughes mindscape Folktale and the quest mythology Monomyth The East European poets Folktale Surrealism Sufism, Shamanism, the Bible, Alchemy Hughes's prose: the search for the Unified Self The early animal poems The malignant violence Quarrel with logos The journey to healing Ecology and poetry Birthday letters