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“... knew he could do, except to try to do them at a continuous, towering level. It led, as we learn in Arnold Rampersad’s new biography, to endless perfectionism in smaller and smaller publications (‘perfectionism that was clogging his arteries as a writer’, Rampersad says), and rounds of admired speeches given on ...”

“... potential danger to the nation.Hughes​ wrote so much, and in so many different genres, that even Arnold Rampersad, in his magnificent two-volume biography published in the 1980s, had trouble keeping track of his output: his theatre projects, his collaborations with composers like Kurt Weill and William Grant Still, his readings and lectures, his column ...”