Sir Jonathan Bate reading “Ted Hughes: Eco-Warrior, or Eco-Worrier?”

[@poetry2024]

I've just learned a poem by Ted Hughes for my fortnightly poetry zoom group "Low Water" and wanted to know more about the poet. What a marvellous introduction and so appropriate to the poem about a river with an analogy to a woman, complete with unselfconscious biological impulse and ending with the line "She eyes you steadily from the beginning of the world". Thank you for the fascinating dissertation and I've ordered Sir Jonathan's book. I am entranced.

[@phiggins54]

Thank you. This lecture makes even clearer some of the lines of development Bate traces in his remarkable and compelling book 'Ted Hughes The Unauthorised Life'. Brilliant!

[@dr.bambamkumar7168]

Wonderful experience to listen to this lecture !!

[@dr.bambamkumar7168]

Great lecture by Prof. Sir Jonathan !!

[@hevorg1381]

A powerful ending along with a fantastic lecture.

[@DrainKats]

Thank you for uploading!

[@dr.bambamkumar7168]

Yes, Ted Hughes was really a nature warrior.

[@gavinreid8351]

Talk starts at around 14 minutes.

[@olgaurueta542]

gavin Reid gee i wish i read this first, lol 😂

[@krishnadasbhakta3995]

Followers may consult Dr.Sisir Kumar Ghose's MEDITATION ON MATRICIDE.(prof.department of English,Visva Bharati.India)

[@jackpayne4658]

Reading Ted Hughes, I've often wondered - is he a natural fascist? After much thought, I would say No - but he can see the appeal. And that appeal, and what opposes it, is one of the major conflicts which run through his poetry.