Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet

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This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer. Drawing on the rapidly-growing interest in poetry and the environment, the book deploys insights from ecopoetics, ecocriticism and Anthropocene studies to analyse how Hughes’s poetry reflects his environmental awareness. Hughes’s understanding of environmental issues is placed within the context of twentieth-century developments in ‘green’ ideology and politics, challenging earlier scholars who have seen his work as apolitical. The unique strengths of this book lie in its combination of cutting-edge insights on ecocriticism with extensive work on the British Library’s new Ted Hughes archive. It will appeal to readers who enjoy Hughes’s work, as well as students and academics.

Reveals Hughes to be not only an ecopoet, but a writer of environmental prose, a ‘green’ activist, and a promoter of environmental education Combines cutting-edge insights on ecocriticism with extensive archival research This is the first book devoted entirely to the development of Ted Hughes’s environmentalism and environmental writing Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Yvonne Reddick

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“The first book-length study of Hughes to focus entirely on his engagement with environmental and ecological issues. It is very thoroughly researched, lucidly written and critically acute. An important merit is that is examines each stage of Hughes’s career in historical context, thus avoiding anachronistic retrospective criticism. Perhaps the most important change it makes to our understanding of Hughes is that he emerges as a public intellectual, rather than the reclusive poet of popular perception.” (Neil Roberts, Emeritus Professor at Sheffield University, UK)

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