Add MS 83697

Hughes-Baskin Papers. Vol. xiv (ff. 174). Press cuttings, reviews, articles and other published material relating to Hughes and his work; 1960-2000. Printed. Includes: reviews of Crow (ff. 40-41), Season Songs (f. 81 and ff. 82-83) and Under the North Star (ff. 121-122); an interview with Hughes by Blake Morrison (ff. 150-151); prospectus for Moortown Elegies (f. 85); advertisements for the launch of Remains of Elmet, with an exhibition of photographs by Fay Godwin (ff. 86-87) and for the première of The Pig Organ, with libretto by Hughes, at the Royal Opera House (f. 120); booklet of press cuttings relating to the 1987 Boston libel trial centring on a 1979 film based on The Bell Jar (ff. 135-144); article by Ted Hughes, 'Subsidy for Poetry' (ff. 123-128) and cuttings of letters to the press from Hughes relating to research and general interest in Plath (ff. 42, 148, 149); copies of an article by David Porter, 'Beasts, Shamans, Baskin: The Contemporary Aesthetics of Ted Hughes', published in Boston University Journal , Fall 1974 (ff. 46-80) and by Elizabeth Maslen, 'Counterpoint: collaborations between Ted Hughes and three visual artists', published in Word & Image, Vol.2, No.1, January–March 1986 (ff. 129-134); pamphlets of The Arvon Foundation (ff. 145-146). Also includes an obituary of and an article on Plath (ff. 3, 5-10).