The Essay | Telegraph Wires – Five Views of Ted Hughes | 3: Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

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Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood. To her his books were more a mood: a dark and brooding presence but one that resonated.

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