Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
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Jonathan Bate. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
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Contents
Dedication
Note to the Paperback Edition
Epigraph
Prologue. The Deposition
1 ‘fastened into place’
2. Capturing Animals
3. Tarka, Rain Horse, Pike
4. Goddess
5. Burnt Fox
6 ‘a compact index of everything to follow’
7. Falcon Yard
8. 18 Rugby Street
9 ‘Marriage is my medium’
10 ‘So this is America’
11. Famous Poet
12. The Grass Blade
13 ‘That Sunday Night’
14. The Custodian
15. The Iron Man
16 ‘Then autobiographical things knocked it all to bits, as before’
17. The Crow
18. The Savage God
19. Farmer Ted
20. The Elegiac Turn
21. The Arraignment
22. Sunstruck Foxglove
23. Remembrance of Elmet
24. The Fisher King
25. The Laureate
26. Trial
27. A
28. Goddess Revisited
29. Smiling Public Man
30. The Sorrows of the Deer
31. The Return of Alcestis
Epilogue. The Legacy
Notes
The Principal Works of Ted Hughes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Index
Also by Jonathan Bate
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Title Page
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After the event, Ted Hughes’s lawyer summed up the issue at stake: ‘The plaintiff, Dr Jane Anderson, asserted that a character in the novel, The Bell Jar, and in the motion picture version was “of and concerning” herself, and that the portrayal of that character as a person with at least homosexual inclinations and suicidal inclinations defamed her and caused her substantial emotional anguish.’8 Reporting the first day of the trial, which finally came to court nearly a year after the Depositions, the New York Times put the case more dramatically:
Literature, lesbianism, psychiatry, film making, television and video cassettes were all touched upon in United States District Court today as a $6 million libel suit opened here … The defendants include 14 companies and individuals, including Avco Embassy Pictures, which produced the 1979 film derived from the novel; CBS Inc., which broadcast it twice; Time-Life Films, the owner of Home Box Office, which played it nine times; Vestron Inc., which made and distributed a video cassette of the film, plus the director and screen writer of the film … At the defendants’ table sat Ted Hughes, the poet laureate of England and a major defendant in the case.9
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