Thanks, Roger, for the tip.
Well worth finding on the LRB website.
I treasure this:
The impression these letters give is of an imagination on a kind of ecstatic
alert, along with a talent for running with an idea, as in this 1962 letter
to Charles Tomlinson where he celebrates the vegetables hešs planted at
Court Green:
'my potatoes are rumbling in the earth like contented elephant herds, my
beans full of bearšs nests & cottages, my peas wandering the neighbourhood &
assaulting the local beauties, my turnips groaning, my radishes booming like
bitterns in the dew, my onions threatening the house, my spinach singing
quietly.'
[I think I shall give this to my Sunday writing workshoppers...
Max
On 26/11/07 9:08 AM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> the Tom Paulin LRB review misses all the juicier bits.
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> On Nov 22, 2007 6:30 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Ted Hughes untamed
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>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article29148
>> 85.ece
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