Hughes

• 'a sensual comprehension, where poem and reader took possession of each other through the medium of poetry, or through the poet as a medium' - Armitage
• 'He is trying to identify personally with the landscape' - Peter Cash
• 'in capturing them, he was also capturing himself' - Morrison
• 'animals are a symbol of power' - Morrison
• 'Hughes expresses the divinity and (harsh) reality of the world. His lifelong goal through his work was to explore the divinity within and around us, and to mitigate our alienation from it' - anna Skea
• 'Hughes' conviction that nature is anti-human' - Uroff
• Hughes's poetry is "far more accessible" and about "day-to-day occurrences." - Kendall
• "Hughes poems are a reminder that we are all part of the same fabric." - Heaney
• "Sexual relations are reduced to grotesque acts of meaningless violence." - Holbrook
• 'Hughes himself is critiquing the male origins of grotesque images of the feminine' - Jacqueline Rose
• ' a shock recognition of ourselves as animals, as killers' - Keith Sager
• ' Ted Hughes was haunted by her [Bronte]' - Claude Rawson
• 'nature in early Hughes is virtually the product of heavy industry and industrial labour' - paul bentley
• ‘He himself was a part of that landscape, elemental, unchangeable’ Bate
• ‘Descent into poetic self-indulgence, misogyny and all too parodiable blackness’ Bate
• ‘The assertion of nihilistic violence’ Bate
• ❏ ‘A tragic kind of joy is redemptive and indestructible’ Bate
• ❏ ‘One-man gynocidal movement’ Bate
• ‘Brutally reductive view of life’ Bentley
• ‘Hughes has no moral lesson to teach’ C B Cox
• ‘Hard, northern and metallic’ G Ingli James
• ‘A spokesperson for the hidden and violent beings we partly are’ Norman McCraig
• ‘The froth of violent escapism’ Bedient
• ‘The froth of violent escapism’ Bedient
• ‘The embodiment of egotistical nihilism’ Holbrook
• ‘Hughes's poetry plays wolffish, unfriendly, but ultimately tender games with

  mortality’ Andrew Sanders
• ‘Some post-modern checklist’ Brown
• Hughes writes about ‘the destructive forces that lurk in our subconscious’

  Madhukumar
• ‘Hughes doesn’t shy away from representing truths that are not pretty or

  flattering’ Brain
• ‘Reading natural voice as symbolising social violence’ Bentley
• ‘Reading natural voice as symbolising social violence’ Bentley
• ‘one-man gynocidal movement’ - Bate
• god of granite- Bate
• 'a poet of claws and cages.’ - Bate