Contents

Prologue: The Deposition

1. ‘fastened into place’

2. Capturing Animals

3. Tarka, Rain Horse, Pike

6. ‘a compact index of everything to follow’

8. 18 Rugby Street

9. ‘Marriage is my medium’

10. ‘So this is America’

11. Famous Poet

12. The Grass Blade

13. ‘That Sunday Night’

14. The Custodian

15. The Iron Man

16. ‘Then autobiographical things knocked it all to bits, as before’

18. The Savage God

20. The Elegiac Turn

21. The Arraignment

22. Sunstruck Foxglove

23. Remembrance of Elmet

24. The Fisher King

25. The Laureate

28. Goddess Revisited

29. Smiling Public Man

30. The Sorrows of the Deer

31. The Return of Alcestis

Epilogue: The Legacy

The Principal Works of Ted Hughes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

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