ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Hughes's most representative works in prose with the exception of his picture books for young children, Shaggy and Spotty, illustrated by David Lucas, and Timmy the Tug, by Jim Downer and Ted Hughes. To understand the importance of Hughes using his own self as a character within the story there is a curious incident worth mentioning briefly. Hughes himself outlines the moral purpose of his storytelling and analyses the meaning of myths in his essay where he expresses the idea that some kinds of imaginative stories can have a curative effect and that as adults 'they are hospitals where we heal, where our imaginations are healed'. Hughes was enacting his greatest healing myth and through redemption, in the form of saving not only nature but by reconnecting culture (society) to its roots (nature) he was completing the final part of his own healing quest.
