{"id":46,"date":"2022-02-05T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=46"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:47:19","slug":"ted-hughes-the-unaccommodated-universe-with-selected-critical-writings-by-ted-hughes-and-two-interviews-230pp-black-sparrow-press-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe, with Selected Critical Writings by Ted Hughes and Two Interviews<\/em> (230pp) Black Sparrow Press, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cEkbert Faas published an interview with Ted Hughes in the London Magazine<\/em> (January 1971) which has since become a fruitful point of entry for those wishing to be initiated into Hughes\u2019s later poetry \u2026 The book which Dr Faas has now put together develops out of this: it contains the texts of two interviews (1970-1977) and a number of valuable excerpts from Hughes\u2019s critical writings, as well as Dr Faas\u2019s own account of the poet\u2019s life and work. Dr Faas is well aware of the dangers of the intentional fallacy, but he has nevertheless chosen to steer very close to Hughes\u2019s own life and ideas, alluding not only to his reading and the development of his thought but also to the circumstances of his life and the effect of private events on his poetry. In this Dr Faas is justified, and is consistently successful: his description of Hughes\u2019s reading, and his charting of Hughes\u2019s development, is illuminating and helpful … intelligent and helpful.\u201d (J.R. Watson, Yearbook of English Studies<\/em>, 13, 1983, 363-364)<\/p>\n

\u201cReaders and scholars will welcome this critical account of Hughes\u2019s growth and development. Faas believes that Hughes\u2019s poetry celebrates a \u2018radical primitivism\u2019 that begins in moments of \u2018flash-vision creativity.\u2019 Faas treats the early books in great detail, but he places major emphasis on Crow<\/em>, Gaudette<\/em>, and on Hughes\u2019s long \u2018mythic play,\u2019 Orghast<\/em>. \u2026 Faas appends an excellent bibliography and two long interviews he conducted with Hughes. Libraries will want to acquire this book because it helps to point up \u2018the living and individual element\u2019 in a poet who is becoming more famous on both sides of the Atlantic.\u201d (Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal<\/em>, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018Our first three-hour discussion in March 1970 was enough to turn me from an admirer of his poetry into a witness of an interior saga whose gradual unfolding in his writing has held my interest ever since.\u2019 So writes \u2026 Faas in the \u2018Personal Pre-Preface\u2019 of his recently published book Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe<\/em>.
\nThe personal contacts with English poet Ted Hughes came about while Prof. Faas was in London working on a second doctorate in English literature; he approached the poet after completing an article about him for a volume on English poets. Many hours of \u2018very intense and private conversations\u2019 ensued.
\n\u2018He struck me as a genius \u2026 someone operating in a different dimension \u2026 like a man talking in a dream \u2026 he gave me a sort of dream account of what his poetry was about.\u2019 \u2026The 215-page semi-biographical and psychoanalytic book retraces Hughes\u2019s poetic development from its beginnings and includes excerpts from his critical writings and two interviews conducted by Prof. Faas.\u201d\u00a0(York University Gazette<\/em>, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe broadest critical coverage of Hughes\u2019s work yet. \u2026 a cogent study of Hughes\u2019s poetic growth \u2026 Faas writes well \u2026 Highly recommended.\u201d (Choice<\/em>, 1980, 30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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