“Our Chaucer": Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading.
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, James.
“Our Chaucer": Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading.
- Published
- Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, and Terry Gifford, eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 143–59.
- Description
- Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes's attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes's view of Chaucer as the "perfect model of a public poet" and as a "presiding presence" in his relationship with Sylvia Plath. Also assesses Plath’s appreciation of Chaucer’s works, especially the character of the Wife of Bath.
- Contributor
- Roberts, Neil, ed.
Wormald, Mark, ed.
Gifford, Terry, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale