Now in paperback, this biography of the hugely influential poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was shortlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. Based on five years studying Ted Hughes's archives, from the award-winning author of "John Clare". 'A moving, fascinating biography' "The Times"
Über den Autor Bate Jonathan
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Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography (Farrar Straus Giroux), which won Britain's two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador, UK and OUP, USA), and a major intellectual biography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age. He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK/Random House Modern Library USA).
