Sorrows of a Polygamist
Mark Ford: Ted Hughes in His Cage, 17 March 2016
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
by Jonathan Bate.
William Collins, 662 pp., £30, October 2015,978 0 00 811822 8 Show More
by Jonathan Bate.
William Collins, 662 pp., £30, October 2015,
“... for the sensational, in sentences that lack a main verb: ‘Then a row, an explosion of anger. Sylvia, a trapped animal, brought fresh from the shining shore of the New World and confined in Yorkshire cold, Yorkshire grime, Yorkshire ways she does not really understand.’ How could a book written in this way, I frequently found myself wondering, be the ... ”