{"product_id":"9781441188168","title":"Ted Hughes, Class and Violence","description":"\u003ch3\u003eContinuum Literary Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eTed Hughes, Class and Violence\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePaul Bentley\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Hughes is now widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry. Critical literature has often characterized him primarily as a mythologizer of nature but the impact of Hughes's class background on his poems has received relatively little attention. \u003ci\u003eTed Hughes, Class and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full length study to take the measure of the importance of class in Hughes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bentley here revisits such crucial topics as the controversy over ‘natural' violence in Hughes's early poems, Hughes's relationship with Philip Larkin and with Seamus Heaney, the Laureateship, and Hughes's revisiting of his relationship with Sylvia Plath in \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), through the lens of Hughes's cultural background and class bearings. Drawing on discussions of violence by such cultural theorists as Slavoj Žižek and Terry Eagleton, the book presents new political readings of familiar Hughes poems, alongside consideration of posthumously collected poems and letters, to reveal a picture of a complex, fraught, and deeply ambivalent poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePaul Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College Plymouth St Mark \u0026amp; St John, UK. He has published widely on modern poetry and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e19 June 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781441188168\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e168\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14.72\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331449520268,"sku":"9781441188168","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_3e3e9ad8-1c61-4a56-8010-110fc70b4dfd.jpg?v=1783596651","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781441188168","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}