Olwen Hughes

Hughes in 1986: Bate simply fails to make the case his book stands on – that the poet was a sadist

Poet as predator

3 October 2015 8:00 am

Craig Raine says that Jonathan Bate’s unauthorised biography of Ted Hughes gets it wrong on every level

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