ABSTRACT
This book discusses Ted Hughes's work by identifying the importance of his writing for children, from an ecocritical perspective, as part of a major professional project which Hughes embraced throughout his entire career. Hughes thought that children were more open and receptive than adults, both to the subconscious as well as to nature, it was through his children's work that he explored a part of his inner self that was often masked in his writing for adults. Given the daunting weight and scope of Hughes's poetic oeuvre, has surveyed the development of Hughes as an eco-poet, offering a chronological analysis of his work and focusing on those poems which best illustrate Hughes's healing quest as well as exploring Hughes's artistic collaboration with Leonard Baskin and Reg Lloyd. Hughes explores the spiritual technique known as shamanism as a healing force to emphasise the holiness of nature and restore the equilibrium.
