The Ted Hughes Society Journal
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Volume 9, issue 2 (2024) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial
Little Cub Hierophant: Shamanic Election, Magical Flight and Ted Hughes’s Protagonist of Crow Michael Jones
Ted Hughes – ‘No Falsifying Dream’ Mike Sweeting
Ted Hughes, the Chthulucene, the Cyborg and the child audience Jessica De Waal
Review Article: The Letters of Seamus Heaney Mark Wormald
Reviews
Volume 9, issue 1 (2022) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial
Birthday Letters and ‘The Sorrows of the Deer’ Ann Skea
Ted Hughes and Phèdre: a ‘poetic folie à deux’ Catherine Macnaughton
‘Ironic Tenderness’: Zbigniew Herbert and the Strategies of Survival in Ted Hughes’s Crow Maria Kaminska
The Fourth Man and the XV: John Montague, Barrie Cooke, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney Mark Wormald
Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 2 (2020) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial
‘Owned by everyone’: a Cambridge Conference on the Salmon Mark Wormald
A Prologue to Capriccio Steve Ely
Crow Zero: Leonard Baskin, Ted Hughes, and the Birth of a Legend Peter Fydler
The Key of the Sycamore Steve Ely
Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 1 (2019) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial Mark Wormald
The Wound that Bled Lupercal: Ted Hughes in Massachusetts David Troupes
‘Right to the source of it all’: Ted Hughes and Dartmoor Richard Hibbert
‘That was our place’: The Cambridge of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath Di Beddow
The Goddess Within: Hindu Symbology in Ted Hughes’s Poetry Krishnendu Das Gupta
Ted Hughes and the Gender of the Pike Mark Wormald
High Diver: in memory of Al Alvarez Mick Gowar
Reviews
Volume 7, Issue 2 (2019) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial Mark Wormald
Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes Holly Ranger
Welsh Origins of Ted Hughes’s Magical Poetry Katherine Robinson
‘The Sound of Dante’s Language’: An Alternative Medieval Tradition for Ted Hughes James Robinson
Hughes and Larkin: A Rapprochement? Neil Roberts
Ted Hughes: Etiquette of the Uncanny Martin Shaw
Ted Hughes and ‘Astrological Conundrums’ Ann Skea
Ted Hughes’s ‘unacknowledged debt’ to ‘The Pike’ by Amy Lowell? Terry Gifford
The Ted Hughes Memorial Lectures at ‘Ways With Words’, Dartington Christopher North
Reviews
Volume 7, Issue 1 (2018) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial James Underwood
What Did Ted Hughes Learn from Anthropology? Robert Layton
Ted Hughes and the Post-Nuclear Landscape Felicity Powell
Mapping Elmet: The Duality of Hughes’s Calder Valley Ruth Crossley
From Remains to Elmet: A Lexical Study of Hughes’s West Yorkshire Texts Kyra Piperides
The Lyre of Orpheus: Ted Hughes and Nick Cave Peter Fydler
‘A Buried Land and a Blazing Source’: Ted Hughes and William Golding Nicola Presley
Two Contemporary Poets and the Ted Hughes Bestiary Daniel Weston
Reviews
Volume 6, Issue 2 (2017) ISSN 2051-7270 (Download)
Contents
Editorial Mark Wormald
Hughes’s Notion of Shamanic Healing Terry Gifford
Hughes and Lawrence Neil Roberts
Like Fury: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath at Cambridge Heather Clark
Irishwards: Ted Hughes, Freedom and Flow Mark Wormald
The Parochial Courage of Ted Hughes Steve Ely
Mayday on Holderness: Ted Hughes, National Service, and East Yorkshire James Underwood
Reviews