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[HUGHES (TED)]The New Poetry. A Selection Selected and Introduced by A. Alvarez, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES TO HIS PARENTS, "To Mom & Dad with love Ted May 24th 1962" on the half-title publisher's wrappers [Sagar/Tabor B11], Penguin Books, 1962--MOOREHEAD (ALAN) Cooper's Creek, TED HUGHES' COPY COPIOUSLY MARKED-UP in margins and with underlinings in blue and black pen, with a note from Frieda Hughes tipped-in ("Daddy commissioned to write the script & hated it. It fell through eventually"), pictorial wrappers (creased, a few short tears), Four Square, 1965--A full-page drawing by Hughes depicting a coiled snake, tethered ass, mountains, small bird and phantastical star-burst, pencil with a few purple ink additions, sheet 265 x 200mm., [undated]; Original carbons for three poems ("The Black Beast", "Second Bedtime Story" and "Magical Dangers"), the first 2 with address "Ted Hughes, Court Green, North Tawton, Devon" in upper right corner, sheet sizes 255 x 205mm., 1960s (6)FootnotesINSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO HIS PARENTS - Al Alvarez was the influential poetry editor for The Observer, an enthusiastic early champion of Hughes, describing him as "a poet of the first importance" in his review of Lupercal (1960), and including more of his poems (twenty-one) in his anthology than any other poet, thus establishing Hughes as one of the best known English poets of his generation. The three carbon copies of poems were evidently written at Court Green, North Tawton at the home Hughes shared with his wife, Sylvia Plath. With an eye to making money, rather than through literary ambition, at this time Hughes turned his hand to script writing, one of which was an adaption of Alan Moorehead's Cooper's Creek in conjunction with the anthropologist and film maker Robert Gardner a project that failed chiefly, as Frieda Hughes notes, due to the fact her father "hated it".
Provenance: Frieda Hughes.