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It highlights Hughes’s distinctive poetic style and public persona, his influence on women, and the biography’s argument that overlapping curses shaped his life. 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From NYT:  \nTed Hughes was an elemental poet of myth and nature, his verse easy to parody. In the late 1960s, the British satirical magazine Private Eye mimicked his work in a manner that Jonathan Bate, in his new biography of Hughes, describes this way: “crow, blood, mud, death, short line, break, no verb.”  \nHughes (1930-1998) was elemental in other ways. Hulking, Heathcliff-like, he had large ink-stained hands and a face “like an Easter Island statue,” as one of his lovers put it. A lock of hair consistently flopped over one eye.  \nHis effect on women was incalculable. When Sylvia Plath, his future wife, met him at a party in 1956, she wrote in her diary about “that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me.” His lover Assia Wevill said of him: “He is one of God’s best creatures. Ever. Ever.”  \nThis poet’s pheromonal impact was such, Mr. Bate writes in “Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life,” that one woman who met Hughes at a party “was so viscerally attracted to him that all she could do was go to the ladies’ room and vomit.”  \nExtreme good looks, always, are blessing and curse. This biography contends that Hughes’s life was cursed in multiple, overlapping ways. He surely brought some of the maledictions on himself.  \nAs we know from earlier biographies of him (and from biographies of Plath, and from dual biographies), his life was rich with incident and tragedy, so much so that a writer would have to be a fool to utterly botch this story.  \nMr. Bate is no fool. A professor of English literature at Oxford and the author of many books, including“The Soul of the Age”(2009), a well-regarded intellectual history of Shakespeare, he has delivered an incisive, humane and deeply absorbing account of Hughes’s life and work.  \nOne of this book’s claims on our attention is that Mr. Bate is the first biographer to have had access to thousands of pages of Hughes’s unpublished writing, including journals, at the British Library. We are made to salivate at prose and poems that still may emerge, including Hughes’s long correspondence with a friend, the poet Seamus Heaney.  \n[ ...]  \nLearn more at  The New York Times.  \nOriginally Published: October 15th, 2015  \nQuick Tags  \n\n|  |\n| --- |\n|  |\n\nCONTACT US  \nNEWSLETTERS  \nPRESS  \nPRIVACY POLICY  \nPOLICIES  \nTERMS OF USE  \nPOETRY MOBILE APP  \n61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654  \nHours:  \nMonday-Friday 11am-4pm © 2022 Poetry Foundation","cbCaipJ1izygN82h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipJ1izygN82h","pdf",111303,"English","# Ted Hughes as an elemental myth and nature poet\n## Biographical focus on curse and tragedy\n## Jonathan Bate’s research and unpublished writing","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote the article and what does it discuss?\",\"answer\":\"The article is by Harriet Staff and it discusses Ted Hughes and Jonathan Bate’s newly published biography of him, focusing on Hughes’s poetry and personal life.\"},{\"question\":\"What poetic traits does the article mention?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Hughes as a myth-and-nature poet whose verse was easy to parody, citing a Private Eye mimicry that referenced elements such as “crow, blood, mud, death” and formal features like short lines and breaks.\"},{\"question\":\"What access does Jonathan Bate have for the biography?\",\"answer\":\"The article says Bate was the first biographer to access thousands of pages of Hughes’s unpublished writing, including journals, held at the British Library.\"}]","Ted Hughes: Poet of Myth, Nature... and a Curse - News - Poetry Foundation | PDF",1789947651]