Download or read book Letters of Ted Hughes written by Ted Hughes and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to others. It is a fascinatingly detailed picture of a mind of genius as it evolved through an incomparably eventful life and career.