The Letters Of Ted Hughes

Midori Snyder writes for The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts”

“Here’s a new title due out early November that has made my “must have” list: the Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid. You can read a fabulous review by John Carey in the Sunday Timesonline here. The letters reveal much about his personal, almost religious relationship to poetry — believing in an active link between poetry and the body. Poetry, Hughes felt, had the capacity to heal the body, while prose destroyed it…..”

And here’s the money quote:

“He spent “thousands of hours” studying astrology and requested Faber to publish his books only on days when “the special conditions of the earth’s electrical field” were propitious.”

Read the rest…