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- Title
'Throttle College'? Ted Hughes's Cambridge Poetry.
- Authors
Reddick, Yvonne
- Abstract
This work breaks new ground in Hughes studies by conducting the first literary analysis of his student creative writing, and reveals highly significant insights about a period in his life that scholarship has too often overlooked. During his student days, Hughes was researching some of the mythical themes that lend such strength to his published poetry, and some of his writing at Cambridge provided the groundwork for later published poems and prose criticism. His undergraduate writing suggests that Hughes was gaining confidence in his poetic talent, but that he wished to practise his skills by mastering traditional metres and rhyme schemes, and to deflect negative criticism by placing his poems within a satirical prose narrative
- Subjects
POETRY collections; HUGHES, Ted, 1930-1998; ENGLISH literature; LITERARY criticism; VERSE satire; PROSE poems; PROSE literature -- History &; criticism
- Publication
Cambridge Quarterly, 2015, Vol 44, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0008-199X
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/camqtly/bfv015