Research Catalog

Title

Ted Hughes : environmentalist and ecopoet / Yvonne Reddick.

Author

Reddick, Yvonne (Yvonne J.)

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xi, 343 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This work is devoted entirely to Ted 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.

Subject

• Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Poets, English > 20th century > History and criticism
• Ecocriticism
• Nature conservation in literature
• Environmental protection in literature
• Ecology in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, discography and filmography (pages 319-335) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Hughes Ecocriticism and Ecopoetry -- 3. From Mytholmroyd to Mexborough : Origins of Hughes's Environmental Awareness -- 4. 'Long live the weeds and the wilderness' : 'Green' Literary Influences -- 5. Animal Agency, America and Early Environmental Views -- 6. The Environmental Revolution -- 7. Hughes's Farming -- 8. 'Join Water' : Hughes's River-poetry -- 9. Green Laureate -- 10. Global Environmentalism -- 11. Hunting, Shooting, Fishing --and Conservation? -- 12. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9783319591766
• 3319591762

OCLC

• 985082705
• SCSB-11479631

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library