HUGHES, Ted; William SCAMMELL (editor). Winter Pollen. London:Faber and Faber. 1994.
8vo. Original black boards with silver title lettering to spine; Pictorial wraparound dust jacket courtesy of the Topkapi Palace Museum; pp. xiv, 465; minimal brusing to head of spine with minor creasing to top edge of jacket; otherwise near fine.
~b~First edition, with an inscription to Hughes' friend Nick Grant: "For Nick/More Bedtime Stories/with love/ from Ted/ 17th February 1994".
Winter Pollen (1994) is a compilation of the prose essays, criticism and reviews by Ted Hughes spanning a period exceeding thirty years. It includes commisioned and unpublished articles on a diverse variety of writers such as Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and his wife Sylvia Plath, to name but a few. As Scammell writes in the Introduction to this essential contribution to the library of any literary enthusiast, "The fugitive reviews and considered essays that make up this book confirm his (Hughes) importance as one of the indisspensible writers and critics of our time".
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