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This Splendid, Brave, Mad Imagination

Philip Hensher LETTERS OF TED HUGHES selected and edited by Christopher Reid Faber, £30, pp. 800, ISBN 9780571221387 £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 EYE RHYMES: SYLVIA......

Sympathy For The Old Devil

1 n his criticism of Sainte-Beuve's biographical method, Proust observes that it 'ignores what a very slight degree of self-acquaintance teaches us: that a book is a product of......