Sorrows of a Polygamist
Mark Ford: Ted Hughes in His Cage, 17 March 2016
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
by Jonathan Bate.
William Collins, 662 pp., £30, October 2015,978 0 00 811822 8 Show More
by Jonathan Bate.
William Collins, 662 pp., £30, October 2015,
“... of the ‘fiercely sexy’ Hughes, to borrow from a Mills and Boon-style account of him by Erica Jong, who only just managed to resist the ‘vampirish, warlock appeal’ of this ‘wildman-from-the-moors’: ‘He hulked,’ she recalls, and ‘reeked of virility … You could inhale the man’s pheromones across the table, this stink of ... ”