Subseries 2.4d
Essays, reviews, talks
Box 113: folder 11 - Box 115
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of essays, review and talks by Ted Hughes. Some essays written earlier in TH's career but chosen for republication in Winter Pollen , 1994, were organized by TH in a group with the other Winter Pollen essays. We have followed TH's own manuscript arrangement in the archive, and many of TH's essays will be found in the Winter Pollen section. The subseries also contains several pieces of a biographical nature: "Biographical notes on self" written by Hughes in ca. 1975 and "Notes on Published Works" containing Hughes comments in 1992 on some of his works. Because of Hughes' propensity to reuse paper, cross-references are used to note locations of related materials in other parts of the collection.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
113 | 11 | Acceptance speech, MS dated 2 April 1994 [upon receiving the Golden Wreath Award for Poetry at the Struga Poetry Festival '94 in Macedonia] |
113 | 12 | "According to Elsa" [review of Adamson, Living Free], New Statesman, 10 November 1961 [C107], TS [See also Subseries 2.2: Wodwo, "Bowled Over"] |
113 | 13 | "Baboons and Neanderthals: A Rereading of The Inheritors" in William Golding: The Man and His Books, 1986 [B133], MS and annotated TS [See also Subseries 2.2: Remains of Elmet, "Churn-Milk Joan"; Subseries 2.3: "The Zodiac in the Shape of a Crown"; and Subseries 2.4c: Selected Poems by Keith Douglas] |
113 | 14 | Biographical notes on self, MS (ca. 1975) |
- | - | "A Book to Remember 1: Ted Hughes Tells You About a Book of Fantasy," Sunday Times, February 1962 [See Subseries 2.6: Earth Owl, "Moon Dog-Daisies"] |
113 | 15 | "Commentary" [letter about The Savage God by Al Alvarez], Times Literary Supplement, 19 November 1971 [C269], MS and TS drafts |
113 | 16 | "The Crime of Fools Exposed" [rev. of ed. C. Day Lewis, Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen], in NY Times Book Review 12 April 1964 [C154], MS drafts, final TS, and printed copy. Version in Winter Pollen as "Unfinished Business" [A104] |
113 | 17 | Descriptions of Cave Birds and Lumb's Remains (commissioned by Ilkey Literature Festival), TS of text published in the Times Literary Supplement, 15 May 1975 |
113 | 18 | "Dr. Dung" [rev. of Rokeach, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti], New Statesman, 4 September 1964 [C160], MS fragment |
113 | 19 | "Dylan Thomas's Letters" [rev. of Fitzgibbon, Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas], New Statesman, 25 November 1966 [C201], MS and final TS |
113 | 20 | "Earlier Days on the Upper Taw," MS and TS |
113 | 21 | "Emily Dickinson's Poetry by Charles R. Anderson" [review], Listener, 12 September 1963 [C145], TS |
- | - | "Feeling for the Fate of Eros," Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes, Arts Yorkshire, March 1982 [See Subseries 2.6, What is the Truth, "Badger" and "Owl"] |
114 | 1 | "Five Ton Phantom" [rev. of Loch Ness Monster by Tom Dinsdale], New Statesman, June 1961 [C95], TS |
114 | 2 | "Folktales of Japan. Edited by Keigo Seki. Folktales of Israel. Edited by Dov Noy" [review], Listener, 12 December 1963 [C149], TS |
114 | 3 | "The Genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer," New York Review of Books, 22 April 1965 [C171], MS and TS. |
114 | 4 | "Gregory Award Poets: 1964" [TH's remarks on short-listed poets, who include Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, and Robert Nye] |
114 | 5 | Henry Williamson: A Tribute by Ted Hughes, 1979 [A68], MS and TS [different from "Henry Williamson" in Incomplete selection of chapters from Faas's selection of prose, filed in Winter Pollen] |
114 | 6 | "A Hero's History" [rev. of Sturluson, R.K. Narayan], in New York Review of Books, 31 December 1964 [C166], TS |
- | - | "Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain," unpublished [See Subseries 2.3: Crow: "The Scientist Adjust His Spectacles," MS and Subseries 2.6: Earth Owl and Other Moon People, "The Earth-Owl"] |
- | - | "Imitations, by Robert Lowell," in Listener, 2 August 1962 [C120], MS [See Subseries 2.5: "Tobit"] |
114 | 7 | "The Interpretation of Parables," Times Educational Supplement, 20 March 1992, and Signal 69, September 1992 [C478, 485], MS and TS drafts, and galley proof from Signal |
114 | 8 | "Introduction to a reading of The Waste Land," centenary celebration of T.S. Eliot’s birth, Palace Theatre, 25 September 1988, TS |
- | - | "It Was Like This" [rev. of I, Said the Sparrow by Paul West], Guardian, 8 February 1963 [C133] [See Subseries 2.3: "Heirlooms"] |
114 | 9 | "The Keats," MS |
114 | 10 | "Laura Riding" [rev. of Faber's Selected Poems], written in 1970 but first published in Faas, The Unaccommodated Universe, 1980 [B101] and reprinted in Winter Pollen; annotated TS |
114 | 11 | Letters to the Editor (re: reviews, Plath, etc), MS and TS |
114 | 12 | List (photocopy) of prose publications (mostly reviews), ca 1970 |
114 | 13 | "Memorial Reading for William Golding," 20 November 1993, unpublished, MS and TS |
114 | 14 | "Men Who March Away" [rev. of Parsons, Men Who March Away, Poems of the First World War] in Listener, 5 August 1965 [C177], MS drafts and final TS. Version in Winter Pollen as "National Ghost" [A104] |
114 | 15 | "Music of Humanity" [rev. of Hodgart (ed.), Faber Book of Ballads], Guardian, 14 May 1965 [C173], TS |
114 | 16 | Musings upon turning 30, MS [See also Subseries 2.5: Tobit, MS and TS] |
114 | 17 | "Myth and Education," in Children's Literature in Education, March 1970 [C240; different essay to "Myth and Education" in Winter Pollen], annotated TS and photostat of published version |
114 | 18 | "Note on the Chronological Order of Sylvia Plath's Poems" (Tri-Quarterly, Fall 1966 [C195], MS draft, TS [See also Series 2.1: Notebook, MS fragments] |
114 | 19 | "Opposing Selves" [rev. of Shaw (ed.), Letters of Alexander Pushkin], Listener, 1 October 1964, TS |
114 | 20 | "Oppugnancy" [rev. of Dröscher, Mysterious Senses], in New Statesman, 27 November 1964 [C164], MS drafts |
114 | 21 | "Out of Africa" [rev. of various African texts], Listener, 28 May 1964 [C156], TS and accompanying letter by Anthony Thwaite [editor of Listener] |
114 | 22 | "Patrick White's Voss," Listener, 6 February 1964 [C151], MS and TS. Versos: TS fragments of "The Caning" [short story] with some annotation by SP; TS fragments of various TH stories for children and poems by others. |
114 | 23 | "Janos Pilinszky," TS and proofs, article by Ted Hughes published in Critical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 75-86 |
114 | 24 | "Play the Game" [rev. of Opie, Children's Games in Street and Playground], Sunday Times, 11 January 1970 [C238], TS |
114 | 25 | "Quitting" [rev. of O'Connor, Vagrancy], New Statesman, 6 September 1963 [C144], TS [republished in Winter Pollen] [See also Subseries 2.2: Woodwo, "Wings] |
114 | 26 | "The Rat Under the Bowler" [rev. of Hailey, "England Revisited"] Saturday Night [C146c], November 1963, MS and TS |
114 | 27 | "Second Asian Poetry Festival," Dhaka, 1989, MS speech |
114 | 28 | "Secret Ecstasies" [rev. of Eliade, Shamanism; Shah, The Sufis], in Listener, 29 October 1964 [C163], MS and TS. Versos: TS fragment of review of "Lead Me Gently" by "Edward Hughes" dated 22 February 1956; TS fragment of "Comment" on film version of Ulysses |
114 | 29 | "Shakespeare's poetry, Shakespeare's magic and Shakespeare's Cleopatra," TS (lecture; authorship unclear but probably by TH) |
114 | 30 | "Subsidy for Poetry," Unesco Features 803, 1984 [C410], annotated TS |
114 | 31 | "Superstitions" [rev. of MacNeice, Astrology; Lethbridge, Ghost and Divining-rod], New Statesman, 2 October 1964 [C162], TS |
114 | 32 | "Sylvia Plath" [introduction to "Ten Poems by Sylvia Plath"], Encounter, October 1963 [C146b], MS fragment |
114 | 33 | "Sylvia Plath" [substantial note on Ariel, Poetry Book Society choice for 1965], Poetry Book Society Bulletin 44, February 1965 [C168], TS |
114 | 34 | "Sylvia Plath" [response to Al Alvarez's review of "Crossing the Water" and "Winter Trees"], MS and TS drafts; republished in Winter Pollen as "Publishing Sylvia Plath" [A104]. |
114 | 35 | "Sylvia Plath: The Evolution of 'Sheep in Fog'" in Winter Pollen, 1994 [written 1988] [A104], multiple MS and TS drafts |
115 | 1 | "Taw and Torridge," in West Country Fly Fishing, 1983 [B121], MS and TS |
115 | 2 | "Tricksters and Tarbabies" [rev. of Greenaway] in New York Review of Books, 9 December 1965 [C181], MS and TS. Also in Winter Pollen [A104] |
115 | 3 | "Why even Bad Poetry is Good" [var. title "The Poetry Book Society"; publication details unknown, dated April 1966], MS and TS |
- | - | A World of Men, Death on a Live Wire, On Stepping From a Sixth Story Window by Michael Baldwin, Listener, 21 February 1963 [C134] [See Subseries 2.3: "Heirlooms"] |
115 | 4 | "The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard," Sunday Times Colour Supplement, 18 November 1962 [C129], MS fragment and TS [TS verso has fragment of unidentified play involving characters called Cahill, Karpaty and Faber] [See also Subseries 2.6: The Earth Owl and Other Moon People, "The Adaptable Mountain Dugong," "The Burrow Wolf," and "Music on the Moon"] |
115 | 5 | "Writing About People" [talk], Listening and Writing, Autumn 1963 [C143], MS and TS |
115 | 6 | "Your World" [review of Your World, 1992], Observer Magazine, 29 November 1992 [C 486], MS and TS |
115 | 7 | Unidentified [about Leonard Baskin], MS and TS |
115 | 8 | Unidentified [eulogy for Norman], MS |
115 | 9 | Unidentified [eulogy for Charles Causley], TS draft |
115 | 10 | Unidentified [fragment re: Crow], TS |
115 | 11 | Unidentified [notes about Capricorns for proposed book TH#72], MS |
115 | 12 | Unidentified [notes on SP's "The Munich Mannequins" and "Totem"], TS |
115 | 13 | Unidentified [on children's writing and teachers], MS |
115 | 14 | Unidentified [on Greek and British governments], MS |
115 | 15 | Unidentified [on Jonathan Miller, Shakespeare, etc.], MS |
115 | 16 | Unidentified [on Shakespeare], MS |
115 | 17 | Unidentified [on Ted Hughes's disgust at the Conservative government's despoiling of the English landscape] |
115 | 18 | Unidentified [on the use of folk tales in three poems in Season Songs], TS |
115 | 19 | Unidentified [on universal goddess] |
115 | 20 | Unidentified [response to James Wood review talking about T.S. Eliot and anti-semitism] |
115 | 21 | Unidentified [talk? on World War II poetry, focusing on Drummond Allison, Sidney Keyes, and particularly Keith Douglas] |
115 | 22 | Unidentified [Ted Hughes's deposition about SP's The Bell Jar], TS |
115 | 23 | Unidentified sheaf of MSS including a possible poem ["I am free, I thank myself, thank fate"] and MS drafts of a story involving a character named Thomas. |
115 | 24 | Notes on Published Works (1992), TS [Corrected and signed March 1992 TS re: various poems, stories, collections, etc. written by TH] |
115 | 25 | Notes on Published Works (1992), TS [unsigned] |