Hughes Critics

• Jonathan Bate


  'Rural England... the source of his literary voice
• Meyers


  'Hughes' father's trauma continued to torment his life and influence his art
• Geoffrey Hughes


  'Hughes' comparisons of animals and people serve to raise the beast and debase the man
• Sagar


  'Hughes' nature had to include suffering, predation, decay, and death
• Lyall


  'Powerful, evocative poetry, replete with symbolism and bursting with dark images
• Johnson


  'A poet of deep tenderness
• John Press


  'A preoccupation with power and violence
• Scigaj


  'Recurring feuds and destructiveness
• Tracy Brain


  Lovesong 'considers the sexual politics of love and its destructive perversity
• Heaney


  'Hughes' poems are reminders that we are all part of the same fabric
• Simon Armitage


  'Fox as an icon of inspiration
• Jonathan Bate


  'A boy completely at home on the land and in the landscape
• Webster


  'Notorious for the raging intensity of its violence
• Norton


  'Hughes' poems through the eyes of the predator
• Madhukumak


  'Nature and its elements can become hostile when man is not in touch with them
• The Guardian


  'Hughes sees a brutal Darwinism struggle for survival
• Sagar


  'Hughes' words burn our hearts with love of creation, but also with purifying guilt of what we have done to it and ourselves
• Davison


  'Poetic voice of blood and guts
• Davison

  'Searches deep into the riddle of language
• Nye

  'Wanted to capture not just live animals but the aliveness of animals in their natural state