Earth-Moon:
A Ted Hughes Website
Farm track above Banksfields, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire. Mytholmroyd is the small town where Ted Hughes was born. This is the middle part of the walk described in »The Rock,« leading straight up from Banksfields to the moors.
Online Material & Downloads
A Note to Students: Quoting on-line Material:
If you would like to quote from the material downloaded, it is recommended to quote at least author, title, url (http://www.earth-moon.org/downloads.htm) and the date of your visit. Material which was originally published elsewhere will carry a note as to the original publication and the original publication date. An example for quoting from material published here for the first time could look like this:
Myers, Lucas. 2001. "Crow Steered / Bergs Appeared: Additional Notes and Minor Corrections".
http://www.earth-moon.org/downloads.html. 04 July 2001.
An example for material previously published elsewhere :
Gifford, Terry. 2000 (1978): "A Return to 'The Wound' by Ted Hughes".
Originally published in Kingfisher I, 1978, pp. 46—53.
http://www.earth-moon.org/downloads.html. 04 July 2001.
Essays, Articles, Reviews:
Please note that the author of these pages is not responsible for the content of essays, articles, etc. by other authors. Please respect the copyright.
Technical Note — Downloading & Reading:
Most downloads are made available in the popular pdf-format. To view and navigate PDF-Files you will need Adobe's Acrobat® Reader®, which is available for free from their site, or a similar application capable of reading PDFs. 
Bere, Carol:
»›Owning the Facts of His Life‹: Ted Hughes's The Birthday Letters«.
Date of Publication on this site: 06 July 2001.
First published in The Literary Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Summer 1998): pp. 556-561.
Download PDF-File, 4 pages, (35 kb).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_bere.html.
Briggs, Joe:
»The View of Nature Portrayed in the Poems ›Pike‹ and ›The Jaguar‹ by Ted Hughes«
Previously unpublished — Joe wrote this for school.
Date of Publication on this page: 10 March 2002
Download PDF-File, 2 pages, (20 kb)
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_briggs.html
Gifford, Terry:
»Further Ted« (An article on the acquisition of Ted Hughes's manuscripts by Emory University, Atlanta.).
First published in The Yorkshire Post, Thursday, 19 June 1997.
Date of Publication on this site: 06 July 2001.
Download PDF-File, 2 pages, (19 kb).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_further_ted.html.
Gifford, Terry:
»A Return to ›The Wound‹ by Ted Hughes«.
(In this essay, Terry discusses Ted Hughes's play »The Wound« and the original version of Cave Birds.)
First published in Kingfisher I, 1978, pp. 46—53.
Date of Publication on this page: 06 July 2001.
Download PDF-File, 6 pages, (40 kb).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_wound.html.
Kazzer, Claas:
Review of Diane Middlebrook: Her Husband. Hughes and Plath — A Marriage.
Date of publication on this site: 12 March 2004 New
Download the PDF-File, 2 pages, (167 kb)
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/rev_middlebrook.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Paul Keegan (ed): Ted Hughes: Collected Poems.
Date of publication on this site: 21-xi-2003 New
Download the PDF-File, 5 pages, (71 kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/rev_collected.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Elaine Feinstein: Ted Hughes. The Life of a Poet.
Date of Publication on this site: 18 March 2002
Download the PDF-File, 7 pages, (105 kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/bio_feinstein.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Charlie Bell: Ted Hughes: A Beginner's Guide.
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http://www.earth-moon.org/rev_crit_beginnersguide.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Tracy Brain: The Other Sylvia Plath.
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/rev_crit_brain.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Lucas Myers: Crow Steered / Bergs Appeared.
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/memo_myers.html
Kazzer, Claas:
Review Tom Pero: »So Quickly It's Over«
(Interview with Ted Hughes).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/th_intv_steelhead.html
Moulin, Joanny:
»Krogon and Moa: Ted Hughes's Philosophical Approach to Logos«
Symposium Paper, Athens 1996.
Date of Publication on this site: Spring 2000.
Download PDF-File, 8 pages, (46 kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_moulkrog.htm
Moulin, Joanny.
»Hughes with Barthes: Mytho-poetic Icons«
Symposium Paper, Glasgow 1995.
Date of Publication on this site: Spring 2000.
Download PDF-File, 10 pages, (56kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_moulbarth.html
Moulin, Joanny.
»History and Reason in the Work of Ted Hughes«
First published in History in Literature, ed. Hoda Gindi, Department of English, University of Cairo (Egypt), 1995, 67 - 83.
Date of Publication on this site: Spring 2000.
Download PDF-File, 15 pages, (95 kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_moulhist.html
Myers, Lucas.
»Crow Steered / Bergs Appeared: Additional Notes and Minor Corrections«.
Notes & Corrections to Lucas Myers' Book including several very interesting sources. Exclusively available from this site.
Date of Publication on this Site: 06 July 2001. Exclusive!
Download PDF-File, 5 pages, (22 kb)
Download PDF-File, in A4 landscape layout to fit into your copy of Crow Steered, 4 pages, (97 kb).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/memo_myersadd.html.
Myers, Lucas.
Extracts from Early Reactions to Crow Steered.
(Flyer issued by the publisher)
Date of Publication on this site: 06 July 2001.
Download PDF-File, 2 pages, (16 kb).
Myers Lucas.
A Letter to the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
(This is a reaction to Diane Middlebrook's Review in the same paper.)
Date of Publication on this site: 06 July 2001.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (9 kb).
Roberts, Neil:
»Hughes, the Laureateship and National Identity«.
First published in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Littératures et Civilisations des Pays Anglophones (Université de Pau), 9, October 1999, pp203-209. Date of publication on this site: 19 October 2005.
Download PDF-File, 15 pages, (50kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_roberts_laureate.html
Sagar, Keith:
»Alcestis«.
Introductory Talk on Alcestis for the Performance at the Lowry in Salford by Northern Broadsides.
(This talk »puts Alcestis in the context first of Greek theatre, then of Hughes' life and work«.)
Date of Publication on this site: 06 July 2001.
Download PDF-File, 9 pages, (57 kb).
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/crit_alcestis.html.
Sagar, Keith:
Review: Ted Hughes: Collected Poems for Resurgence magazine.
Date of Publication on this site: 08 January 2004. New
Download PDF-File, 4 pages, (24 kb).
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http://www.earth-moon.org/rev_collected_keith.html.
Poems
Gifford, Terry:
»Only an Owl...«
A poem in memory of Fred Rue Jacobs.
Date of publication on this site: 02 April 2000.
Download PDF-File, 2 pages, (15 kb)
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http://www.earth-moon.org/memo_poems.html.
Sagar, Keith:
»Death of a Poet«
A poem in memory of Ted Hughes.
Date of publication on this site: 17 January 2001.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (10 kb)
Read the Online Version,
http://www.earth-moon.org/memo_poems.html.
AudioBook Inlay Cards
These are files listing the tracks on the individual cassette tapes.
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember
Read and introduced by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (17 kb), landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)
Tales From Ovid.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (7 kb), landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)
Crow.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (12 kb), landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)
Nessie the Mannerless Monster and The Iron Wolf.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (12 kb), landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)
How the Whale Became and Other Stories.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (9 kb), in one file with Tales of the Early World, landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)
Tales of the Early World.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (9 kb), in one file with How the Whale Became (cutout to fit tape box)
The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales.
Read by Ted Hughes.
Download PDF-File, 1 page, (7 kb), landscape format (cutout to fit tape box)