{"product_id":"ted-hughes-9780062362445","title":"Ted Hughes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain’s most important poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children’s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes’s inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new m\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524055900503,"sku":"9780062362445","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780062362445.jpg?v=1731855329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ted-hughes-9780062362445","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}