“Our Chaucer": Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading.

Author / Editor
Robinson, James.

Title
“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