The "Letters of Ted Hughes" is an insightful and revealing collection of correspondences that provides a unique glimpse into the life and mind of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Hughes' letters are both deeply personal and intellectually stimulating, forming a narrative that covers his life from age 17 until his death. The letters offer an intimate portrait of Hughes, documenting his thoughts, feelings, and experiences as he navigated the complexities of life as a writer. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in poetry, literary history, or the inner lives of great artists.

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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children); a life pared down to essentials and yet eventful, peripatetic, at times publicly controversial.

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