From a long letter answering questions sent by an Oxford MA student writing her dissertation 1992, p.621ff) [click to enlarge]
Showing posts with label Mexborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexborough. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Hughes' boyhood
From this account of his youth around Mexborough (he attended Mexborough Grammar School) we get, amongst other things, Hughes' feeling for poetry as a sort of magic. And note the learning by heart that he did.
From a long letter answering questions sent by an Oxford MA student writing her dissertation 1992, p.621ff) [click to enlarge]




From a long letter answering questions sent by an Oxford MA student writing her dissertation 1992, p.621ff) [click to enlarge]
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childhood,
English,
Mexborough,
poetry,
Ted Hughes
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