Cover
Title Page
Copyright
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
