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Ted Hughes was a wild man, or at least his imagination dwelt most readily and habitually within the company of the wild: this much is common knowledge. And it is certainly true that he liked, no doubt needed, to cast himself in the role of a tendentiously ungenteel thing, in life as well as in art, a rough creature out of tune with more polite contemporary modes.
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Perry, S. (2018). Hughes and Urbanity. In: Roberts, N., Wormald, M., Gifford, T. (eds) Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_14
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