Earth-Moon:
A Ted Hughes Website
Foxgloves above Mytholmroyd. Mytholmroyd is the small town in Yorkshire, where Ted Hughes was born in 1930.
About this Site: A Note to Students
This site was developed in such a way as to also give students of Ted
Hughes's work enough material to start their own investigations.
I still do receive enquiries such as »Can you please interpret ... [name
of a poem] for me.« This I can and will not do. However, I try and keep
up with general further enquiries, but it may take a couple of weeks before
you receive a reply. But please consult the pages of this site first - all
the information you are looking for might be readily listed:
There are pages on Critical publications, monographs, essay collections, conferences,
etc. Most of them have a contents listing that should give you an idea what
to find in them. If there is on-line content, it will be listed there and
directly accessible from the page.
There is a page dubbed StudyLink which is intended for students and scholars
who write their masters, PhD or other theses on Hughes. The aim of this is
to provide information on current work in progress and offer an opportunity
for exchange. Please let me know if you would like to be included there and
submit a short abstract of your project for publication (this doesn't need
to be final, you can always change it).
The News page lists any news relating to Hughes's work I may hear of.
The Publications pages list major publications by Hughes himself, most of
them with short notes and/or contents listings. Further pages are dedicated
to important aspects of his work, like his essayist writing or his children's
books.
Finally, there is a Links list which lists further relevant resources.
Quoting
If quoting from the contents of a web site it is advisable to adhere
to the MLA guidelines. An excerpt of these can be found at the MLA web
site http://www.mla.org.
Roughly, you always quote the author, the page source, title, and the date
of visit. For this site this would always be http://www.ted-hughes.net/
and the respective ›file name‹ of the page referred to added
after the backslash (like »http://www.ted-hughes.net/about.htm«).
The names of the authors of essays and articles published here are always
given at the top / bottom of
the respective
pages.