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]