6/29/2023 0 Comments Ted hughes the unauthorised lifeAnd I no longer have to worry about that rather artificial distinction between ‘biography’ and ‘literary life’.” So that was telling them, and now here’s the punitive result, published by Murdoch. “I am disappointed at losing so much of Hughes’s wonderful written voice, but it is actually proving good writerly discipline to weave his thoughts in with my own words and not to fall back on big blocks of quotation. “With quotation now limited to fair dealing most of this will have to go, and the new version will be much more biographical,” he said, ominously. So the deal with Faber was off too.īate, however, published an article in The Guardian a week later saying he would press ahead, but that the book would now perforce be less about the development of Hughes’s poetic voice after all. Then in spring 2014 the Ted Hughes estate withdrew its co-operation and permission to quote from the unpublished archive in the British Library, stating that it believed Bate was straying from the remit that had been agreed. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīate worked away for four years.
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