2001, ISBN: 029764601X

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780297646013], Near Fine, [PU: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London], ELAINE FEINSTEIN; TED HUGHES; SYLVIA PLATH; BIOGRAPHY; LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERATURE; FIRST EDITIONS; POET LAUREATE;… More...

[EAN: 9780297646013], Near Fine, [PU: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London], ELAINE FEINSTEIN; TED HUGHES; SYLVIA PLATH; BIOGRAPHY; LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERATURE; FIRST EDITIONS; POET LAUREATE; BIRTHDAY LETTERS; ASSIA WEVILL, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Jacket, First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Near fine in white paper-covered boards, which are illustrated photographically showing some manuscript text of Ted Hughes. Pale grey-mottled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine translucent monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper with black and gold titles, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £20 to bottom of front jacket flap. The dustwrapper is cleverly designed so that the writing on the boards shows through. Head of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased. Very small remnants of a price-sticker to front flap of dustwrapper. No tears. Dustwrapper clean. 240mm x 164mm. xiv prelim-plus 273 pages including notes and index to rear. ***'Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century, whose recognition came early and who was unusually successful in the difficult role of Poet Laureate. Yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than thirty years. Hughes' bestselling book, Birthday Letters, a sequence of lyrics cast as a continued conversation with Plath, shows how electric their relationship was and how much damage they did to one another. ***In this biography Elaine Feinstein for the first time tells the story of Hughes' life as he experienced it, rather than presenting him as a figure in the perception of others. Many people have held his adultery responsible for Plath's death, since it was her discovery of his affair with the glamorous Assia Wevill that led her to order Hughes out of their Devon home. Feinstein explores an altogether more complex situation, which includes Plath's fragility throughout the marriage and Hughes' own confused intentions in the last few weeks of her life. In the process, Feinstein throws new light on his relationship with Assia Wevill, in some ways as vulnerable a figure as Plath herself. Hughes later had a child with Assia, who also killed herself along with their young daughter. ***Drawing on extensive archive material and her own revealing analysis of Hughes' poems, as well as interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets and critics, Elaine Feinstein, who knew Hughes for nearly thirty years, gives a complex portrait of a man intrigued by the forms of magical experience which preoccupied Shakespeare and Yeats, who was nevertheless a down-to-earth Yorkshire man. His sharp eye for the natural world and his love of the countryside are widely known, but equally important to his development were poets from eastern and central Europe such as Miroslav Holub, Vasco Popa and Janos Pilinszky. His whole vision of life was marked by the evidence of human brutality in the twentieth century.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition complete in its original dustwrapper in extremely nice, bright, clean collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc., Books<

2001, ISBN: 029764601X

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780297646013], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson], BIOGRAPHY, POETRY, LITERATURE, Jacket, London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2001. First Edition/First Printi… More...

[EAN: 9780297646013], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson], BIOGRAPHY, POETRY, LITERATURE, Jacket, London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2001. First Edition/First Printing (1 included in full number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5” x 9.3“. ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 244 pp and notes. Quarter bound black cloth spine over dark grey boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Boards and text block are pristine with no signs of wear. One set of glossy photographs in the text. Top of dust jacket has some minor shelf wear but is near fine. Book is fine. Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology and a fascination with primitive cultures. But it is for his marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath that he is best known. Their seven-year marriage marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Elaine Feinstein first met Hughes in 1969. She was a good friend of his and his sister Olwen, both of whom guarded the Plath estate. She knew many of the European and American poets who influenced Hughes; Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Miroslav Holub and knows the world in which both he and Plath moved. This is the first biography of Hughes since his death in 1999 and Feinstein has had access to the main archive of Hughes' manuscripts at Emory University, Atlanta, as well as archives at the University of Liverpool and many letters in private hands. The dust jacket will be protected with a new acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message., Books<

2001, ISBN: 9780297646013

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 029764601X . Sticker remnants on front DJ. ; 166 X 29 X 242 millimeters; 352 pages ., Weidenfeld & Nicolson… More...

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 029764601X . Sticker remnants on front DJ. ; 166 X 29 X 242 millimeters; 352 pages ., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, 3<

ISBN: 9780297646013

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