{"product_id":"the-page-is-printed-ted-hughess-creative-process-2021-9781800855359","title":"The Page is Printed: Ted Hughes's Creative","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author’s ideas about inspiration or how a poem should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper? This monograph explores these questions in offering the first full-length study of Ted Hughes’s poetic process. Hughes’s extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the book’s unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses Hughes’s techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work. The book considers Hughes’s changing ideas about how poetry ‘ought’ to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It presents a fresh exploration of Hughes’s major collections across the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of paper and ink to Hughes’s poems, reading their histories, the stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and creative environments in which they were gestated, born and matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century’s most iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his creative process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Page is Printed\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length examination of Hughes to pay due attention to the poet’s complex and shifting attitudes towards composition, revision and creative collaboration. Drawing on authorship studies, archival methodologies and genetic criticism, and grounded in extensive research in Hughes’s papers, Smith provides the most detailed account to date of the workshop in which the poetry was forged. The result is a study rich in fresh and exciting insights into both individual poems and the oeuvre as a whole.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Davis, University College Cork\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An engaging and rigorous book that makes an important contribution to Ted Hughes studies. \u003ci\u003eThe Page is Printed\u003c\/i\u003e will be enjoyed by scholars, students, and poets alike.’ \u003cbr\u003eYvonne Reddick, University of Central Lancashire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: ‘transparent exposure of the poetic operations’  1. The Professional Poet: The Transition from the Drafts of \u003ci\u003eThe Hawk in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e to the Process of \u003ci\u003eLupercal\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Evolution of ‘Skylarks’ 3. ‘They wrote themselves’: The ‘Shock’ Composition of Ted Hughes’s Crow Poems4. Collaborative Composition: Negotiating Word and Image in the Drafts of \u003ci\u003eCave Birds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRemains of Elmet\u003c\/i\u003e5. Writing Truth and the Truth of Writing: The Spontaneous Composition of \u003ci\u003eMoortown Diary\u003c\/i\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e: An Archive of Writing\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360138395991,"sku":"9781800855359","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800855359.jpg?v=1754126779","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-page-is-printed-ted-hughess-creative-process-2021-9781800855359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}