Fainlight, Harry, 372
Fainlight, Ruth: marriage to Alan Sillitoe, 174; visits TH and SP in Devon, 184, 187, 247; on TH and Assia’s beauty, 253; TH stays with, 299; and brother Harry, 372; in Finland, 403; sees stage version of The Iron Man, 490; Poems (with TH and Sillitoe), 295
Fairfax, John, 325
‘Falcon Yard’ (SP; incomplete novel), 111, 133, 151
‘Fallgrief’s Girlfriends’ (TH; poem), 92
‘Famous Poet’ (TH; poem), 21, 168
Farrar family, 30–2
Farrar, Albert (TH’s uncle), 27, 34–5, 39, 45; suicide, 28, 55–6, 217, 428, 450, 511
Farrar, Alice (Walter’s wife), 34
Farrar, Annie (TH’s maternal grandmother), 32, 34, 40
Farrar, Barbara (TH’s cousin), 35, 400
Farrar, David (Tom’s son), 400
Farrar, Edwin (TH’s cousin), 35
Farrar, Glennys (TH’s cousin), 55
Farrar, Hilda (TH’s aunt) see Bottomley, Hilda
Farrar, Ivy (née Greenwood; Tom’s wife), 34
Farrar, James (TH’s son), 35
Farrar, Minnie (Albert’s wife), 29, 34
Farrar, Miriam (TH’s aunt), 32
Farrar, Mitchell (TH’s grandfather), 32
Farrar, Nicholas (1592–1637), 30, 337
Farrar, Rita (David’s wife), 400
Farrar, Thomas (TH’s uncle), 32–4, 394
Farrar, Walter (TH’s uncle), 27, 32, 34, 83, 122, 187, 237, 391, 394, 428; death, 359–60, 397
‘February 17th’ (TH; diary poem), 319, 327
‘February’ (TH; poem), 164
Feinstein, Arnold, 400
Feinstein, Elaine: biography of TH, 19; and Emma Tennant, 369; Baskin questions, 373; Olwyn’s friendship with, 400
feminism: rise of, 345–6
Fenton, James, 504
Ferguson, Sarah (Duchess of York), 488
Feuer, Donya, 465–6
‘Fever 103 degrees’ (SP; poem), 202, 239
Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth (TH; children’s story), 430
‘59th Bear, The’ (TH; poem), 152
‘Fifty-Ninth Bear, The’ (SP; story), 151–2
Findlay, Jean, 63, 331, 337
‘First, Mills’ (TH; poem), 396
‘First Things First’ (TH; poem), 425
‘First time I brought a bottle of wine, The’ (TH; poem), 526
‘First Time, The’ (TH; poem), 513
Fisher, John Edward: TH dedicates Poetry in the Making to, 37; teaches and inspires TH, 43, 53–5, 72, 76; recommends TH for admission to Cambridge, 61; gives Graves’s White Goddess to TH, 65; visits TH and SP in Mexborough, 128; TH sends Ariel to, 238; TH explains Wodwo to, 249; and Brook’s invitation to TH to collaborate in Paris, 260–1; illness and death, 400–2
Fisher, Nancy, 128
Fitzroy Road, London, 202–3, 206, 208, 210, 220–1, 442, 444–5
‘Five Autumn Songs for Children’s Voices’ (TH), 326
‘Flame’ (TH; poem), 450
Fletcher, John, 54, 458
Flowers and Insects (TH; poetry), 430, 505
Folliet, Mary: ‘Ten Years Cold’ (poem), 353
‘Football at Slack’ (TH; poem), 396
‘For the Duration’ (TH; poem), 428–9
‘For Olwyn Each Evening’ (TH; unpublished poem), 48
Fortess Road, Kentish Town, London, 371
Forward Poetry Prize, 529, 538
‘Four Corners of a Windy House’ (SP; story), 133
Fowles, John: The Magus, 333
Frazer, Sir James: The Golden Bough, 350
Freedom: A Commemorative Anthology to Celebrate the 125th Birthday of the British Red Cross, 518
Freud, Sigmund, 93
Friedan, Betty: The Feminine Mystique, 346
Frost, Robert, 3, 145
Full House, A (TH; verse sequence), 242
‘Full Moon and Little Frieda’ (earlier ‘Frieda’s Early Morning’; TH; poem), 216, 363
Gammage, Nick, 459–60, 477
García Lorca, Federico: Blood Wedding, 499–500
Garland, Patrick, 252
Gaudete (TH; poem): writing, 19, 228, 333–66, 363; reception, 334–5; themes, 335–6, 338; ‘Epilogue’ poems, 337–9, 341–2; origins, 337–8; elegiac quality, 339, 343, 534; in Selected Poems, 414
Gawain and the Green Knight see Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gehenna Press, 145, 160, 186, 288, 497, 550; see also Baskin, Leonard
George VI, King: death, 72
Germany: TH offered residency in, 242–3; TH visits with Assia, 269
Gerson, Mark, 169
Getty, Paul, 476
Gielgud, Sir John, 257–8, 483
Gifford, Terry, 477
Gillespie, Iris, 481
Ginsberg, Allen, 252–3
‘Go Fishing’ (TH; poem), 515, 542
Godwin, Fay: photographs illustrate Remains of Elmet, 388–9, 391–5, 406, 410, 428–9; photographs omitted from Three Books, 396
Gooder, Jean, 100
Goodman, Emily, 348
Gowrie, Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl, 543
Grace, Carolyn, 2, 6, 8
Grand Street (magazine), 355, 515
Granta (magazine), 78–9
Grattidge, Liz, 80, 83–4, 86, 89, 94
Graves, Robert, 180, 252, 365, 382, 403; The White Goddess, 65–7, 77–8, 165, 234, 250, 290, 297, 331, 351, 457, 459–60, 473, 511
Gray, Tony, 110
Greenwood, Harry, 56
Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch, 345
Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 192
‘Griefs for Dead Soldiers’ (TH; poem), 102
Griffiths, Eric, 470–1
Grimshaw, Parson, 390
Grotowski, Jerzy, 311
‘Group, the’ (friends), 88
‘Grouse, The’ (TH; poem), 197, 526
Guardian (newspaper), 334, 441
Guggenheim Foundation, 146
Guinness company (brewers), 191
Guinness Poetry Award, 145
‘Gulkana, The’ (TH; poem), 420
Gunn, Thom: friendship with TH, 9, 94; at Cambridge, 78; joint publication with TH, 179; published in The New Poetry, 181; turns down Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 476
Guppy, Shusha, 543
‘Gypsy, The’ (TH; poem), 215
Hailey, Arthur, 228–9
Hall, Donald, 244, 335
Hall, Peter, 78
‘Hanged Man and the Dragonfly, The’ (TH; essay), 491
‘Hardcastle Crag’ (TH; poem), 392, 396
Harding, Dr, 539
Hardy, Thomas, 255, 339, 504
Harper Brothers (Harper and Row; US publishers), 125, 127, 167, 352
Harper’s Magazine, 167
Harry, Prince, 484
Hart, Josephine: Damage, 481
Harvard University, TH reads poetry at, 139
‘Harvesting, The’ (TH; story), 56, 164
Hathaway, Anne, 468, 544
Hawk in the Rain, The (TH; collection): TH’s ‘Song’ included, 63; war poems, 102; submitted to and wins Harper Brothers’ competition, 125, 127; published and reviewed, 134–7; wins Somerset Maugham Award, 162; and Wodwo, 249–50; and the unconscious, 331; jaguar in, 449
‘Hawk in the Rain, The’ (TH; poem), 5, 137
‘Hawk Roosting’ (TH; poem), 165–6, 271, 273, 376
‘Hawk in the Storm, The’ (TH; poem), 124
Haworth: the Brontë parsonage, 90, 123, 273, 536
‘Haworth Parsonage’ (TH; poem), 394
Hawthornden Prize, 174
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 450
Hazlitt, William, 62, 491
‘Head, The’ (TH; story), 44, 371
Heaney, Marie, 271, 386
Heaney, Seamus: lecture on TH as poet, 13; profession, 16; on TH’s commitment to poetry, 20; on TH’s marriage failure, 198; meets Assia, 271; stays with TH, 299; on TH’s Gaudete, 334; on ‘The Earthenware Head’, 339; on
TH in Ireland, 375; as judge for Arvon International Poetry Competition, 385–6; co-edits Faber Book of Verse for Young People, 387; poetic development, 416–17, 429; Harvard Professorship, 433, 438; letters from TH, 476; wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 476; and TH’s translation for Royal Shakespeare Company, 497; praises Birthday Letters, 507, 538; speaks at TH’s funeral and memorial service, 541–3; correspondence with TH, 555; Death of a Naturalist, 271; North, 14; ‘On a new work in the English tongue’ (tribute to Birthday Letters), 538; The School Bag (with TH; anthology), 483–4; Station Island, 416
Heath, Edward, 464
Hecht, Anthony, 139, 252
Hedden, Brenda: TH meets in Devon, 245; birth of daughters, 246, 253; relations with TH, 256, 267, 277, 280–1, 298–301, 378; in Assia’s will, 266; gifts from TH, 270; in Yorkshire, 281, 286; moves to Lancing, Sussex, 300; letters from TH, 553
Hedden, Judith, 253
Hedden, Trevor, 245, 266–7
Heinemann, William (publisher), 161, 234, 352, 4345
Heptonstall, Yorkshire, 222–3, 394, 519, 536; see also Lumb Bank
‘Heptonstall’ (TH; poem), 392
‘Heptonstall Cemetery’ (TH; poem), 394, 396
‘Her Husband’ (TH; poem), 19, 251
Herbert, George: The Temple, 30
Herbert, Zbigniew, 233, 252–3, 273, 279, 282, 361
Heseltine, Michael, 482
‘Hidden Orestes, The’ (TH; poem), 510, 523
Hill, Geoffrey, 191, 539
‘Hill of Leopards, A’ (TH; proposed title), 125
Hippolytus (mythological figure), 476
Hitler, Adolf: Williamson admires, 52
Hobsbaum, Philip, 79, 88–9, 97
Hodgart, M.J.C., 70
Hofmann, Michael, 490, 495, 528
Hogbin, Ian: Experiments in Civilization, 78
Hollis, Tasha, 24, 206, 211, 225–6, 281, 365
Holmes à Court, Francis (later 5th Baron Heytesbury), 74
Holmes, Richard: Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 557
Holt, Billy, 390
Holub, Miroslav, 233, 282
‘Honey Bee and the Thistle, The’ (TH; poem), 489
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 53, 285
Horder, Dr John, 160, 212, 215, 524, 534
Hordern, Michael, 425
Horovitz, Frances, 415
Horovitz, Michael, 488
‘Horses, The’ (TH; poem), 137, 181
House of Aries, The (TH; radio play), 161, 333
‘House of Tauris, The’ (TH; lost play), 155
Housman, A.E., 363
‘How the Donkey Became’ (TH; children’s story), 120
‘How the Polar Bear Became’ (TH; children’s story), 489
How the Whale Became (TH; children’s stories), 227
‘Howling of Wolves, The’ (TH; poem), 226, 332
Howls and Whispers (TH), 509–10, 523, 562
Hughes family: TH and SP spend Christmas with, 126
Hughes, Ashley (Gerald’s son), 128, 272
Hughes, Brendon (Gerald’s son), 128, 272
Hughes, Carol (née Orchard): home in North Tawton, Devon, 11; cares for TH’s children, 254–6; TH’s attachment to, 267, 277, 286, 298–9; meets Gerald and family, 272; TH takes to Lumb Bank, 286; TH marries, 299, 422–3; in Israel with TH, 301; packs up TH’s papers at Lumb Bank, 305; TH praises, 306, 422; in Persia, 311; assists with farming, 319, 329; holiday in Italy with TH, 324; TH dedicates Season Songs to, 326, 366; Emma Tennant meets, 369; and TH’s infidelities, 371, 381; wishes to retain farm, 381; supports Farms for City Children, 417; meets Boyanowski, 423; relations with Frieda, 478; sister’s death from cancer, 483; The Dreamfighter dedicated to, 495; stays at Matthew Evans’ with TH, 504; at Buckingham Palace, 538; inheritance from TH, 546–7; prepares TH’s letters for publication, 553; in TH poem, 565
Hughes, Edith (née Farrar; TH’s mother), 12; home in Mexborough, 3, 47; buys bath, 26–7; on TH’s birth, 27; marriage and children, 30, 33–4; spiritual life, 31, 48; in Great War, 32–3; works for brothers, 34–5; walking and swimming, 39; stories and poems, 40; helps with newsagent’s shop, 48; buys books for TH, 52–3; and brother Albert’s death, 56; and Shirley’s mishap in kitchen, 90; photographed with SP, 122; at SP’s funeral, 213; health decline, 244, 246, 253, 272; death and funeral, 278, 281, 340, 459; TH dedicates poems to memory, 344; prevents husband’s infidelity, 381; Remains of Elmet dedicated to memory, 391, 394; in TH’s poems, 396
Hughes, Frieda Rebecca (TH-SP’s daughter): birth, 162–3; childhood, 171, 174, 558–60; pecked by crow, 182; and TH’s visit to SP in Fitzroy Road, 208; and mother’s suicide, 213, 219, 559–60; upbringing, 224–5; in TH poems, 227, 511–12, 514; TH dedicates books to, 228; schooling, 231, 244, 301, 324, 328; Ariel dedicated to (with Nicholas), 237; SP’s poem for, 238; in Ireland with father, 245–6; on grandmother Aurelia, 254; begs Assia to stay, 255; childhood poems, 256; TH reads The Iron Man to, 263; in Assia’s will, 266; visits to grandmother Aurelia in USA, 269, 281, 299; visits the Beacon, 272; and grandmother Edith’s death, 278; TH plans to take north to live, 281; urges TH to marry Carol, 299; trip to Scotland and Lake District, 305; in Persia, 311; precocity, 317; letters from TH, 328; wild youth and marriage to Des Dawe, 382, 402; Moon-Whales dedicated to, 387; appearance and activities, 415–16; divorce from Des and relations with insurance salesman, 415; painting and sculpture, 449; TH endorses to US publisher, 477; on bees, 478; moves to Australia, 478, 560; third marriage (to Lukácz), 478; TH’s wedding poem to, 478–80; The Iron Woman dedicated to, 489; returns to England on learning of TH’s cancer, 502; accepts Whitbread Prize for Birthday Letters on TH’s behalf, 506; provides painting for jacket of Birthday Letters, 507–8; poem on publication of Birthday Letters, 508; questions TH about mother, 513; first volume of poetry published, 537; and TH’s death, 541; unmentioned in TH’s will, 546; shares TH’s posthumous copyright, 547; poems and paintings of life, 558; and Nick’s death, 562; ‘Conversation with Death’ (poem), 541; Forty-Five (autobiographical project), 558–61; Man Thinking (painting), 558; Wooroloo (poetry), 560; Waldorf and the Sleeping Granny, 478
Hughes, Gerald (TH’s brother): home life, 3, 27, 35; climbs Scout Rock, 23; birth, 33; moves to Mexborough, 36; outdoor activities, 38–9, 56; TH’s devotion to, 38, 45, 539; visit to Crimsworth Dene, 41–3; war service, 41, 48, 53; hunting and shooting, 44; temporary jobs, 48; emigrates to Australia, 57, 73, 80; children, 128; letter from TH on marriage to SP, 128; letter from TH on marriage difficulties, 195; and TH’s bid for Heptonstall house (Lumb Bank), 222; Nicholas meets, 238; visits England, 238, 241, 272; letter from TH on unsettled life, 286; declines return to England, 287; newsy letters from TH, 317, 328, 399; TH writes to about money, 324; TH visits in Australia, 359–60; and problem of father in old age, 384; and publication of Remains of Elmet, 391; told of father’s death, 400; Nicholas gives modelled jaguar to, 449; on mother’s death, 496; Ted and I, 558
Hughes, Glyn: Millstone Grit, 19, 389–90; Where I Used to Play on the Green, 390, 396
Hughes, Joan (Gerald’s wife), 80, 128, 171, 272, 328, 359–60
Hughes, John (TH’s grandfather; ‘Crag Jack’), 29
Hughes, John (TH’s uncle), 29
Hughes, Mary (TH’s aunt), 29
Hughes, Mary (TH’s grandmother), 29, 35
Hughes, Nicholas Farrar (TH’s son): fishing with father, 5, 60, 365, 383, 399; memory method, 84; birth, 178–9; childhood, 185; and mother’s suicide, 213; upbringing, 224–5, 231; in TH poem, 227; TH dedicates books to, 228; Ariel dedicated to (with Frieda), 237; childhood story, 238; meets uncle Gerald, 238; in Ireland with father, 245–6; on grandmother Aurelia, 254; wishes Assia to stay, 255; in Assia’s will, 266; visits grandmother Aurelia in USA, 269, 281, 299; visits the Beacon, 272; and grandmother Edith’s death, 278; TH plans to take north to live, 281; urges TH to marry Carol, 299; schooling, 301, 324, 382; trip to Scotland and Lake District, 305; in Persia, 311; fads and obsessions, 317; meets Jill Barber, 365; printing on hand press, 3
82; academic career as fish expert, 383, 405, 415, 561; in Alaska, 383, 405, 415, 420, 427, 493, 561; Moon-Whales dedicated to, 387; helps build writing hut, 399; visits Lake Victoria, 405–6; joins TH in Victoria, British Columbia, 422; breaks with girlfriend Madeline, 427; and TH’s environmental concerns, 427; skill as potter, 449, 561; beekeeping, 478; The Iron Woman dedicated to, 489; meets TH’s last love, 493; letter from TH on publication of Birthday Letters, 508; present at father’s death, 540; unmentioned in TH’s will, 546; shares TH’s posthumous copyright, 547; in Frieda’s Forty-Five, 559; effect of father’s death on, 561–2; suicide, 562
Hughes, Olwyn (later Thomas; TH’s sister): home life, 3, 27, 35; as TH’s agent, 10, 17, 235, 407; poetic voice, 15; and TH’s inner life, 15; contributes to Anne Stevenson’s biography of SP, 19; on TH’s attitude to women, 21; memories of childhood, 25–6, 38, 39–41; interest in astrology and occult, 27, 70, 139; and fox episode at Crimsworth Dene, 42–4; closeness to TH, 48, 273, 492, 539; schooling, 49, 53; studies at Queen Mary College, London, 63; and TH’s reading of C.G. Jung, 64; visits TH in Cambridge, 70; letters from TH, 72, 138; moves to Paris, 73, 83; work in London, 73; holidays abroad, 83; and Shirley, 90, 563; and TH’s prose writing, 120; meets SP, 125; on SP, 125, 159; SP on, 125, 160; on SP’s flare-up before Fishers, 128; letter from TH on America, 130; encounters TH and SP at The Beacon, 159–60; visits TH and SP in London, 161–2; smoking, 162, 170, 541; and TH’s Lupercal, 163; quarrels with SP, 169–71; slight acquaintance with SP, 170; stylish present-giving, 171; and TH-SP marriage breakdown, 193, 195–6, 199, 200, 533; TH sends poems to, 216; Assia’s hostility to, 223; leaves Paris and moves to Court Green, 224–5, 231; on Shura’s paternity, 242; moves to open literary agency in London, 244, 246; Assia reconciled with, 256; establishes Rainbow Press, 294; on TH’s indecision over marrying, 299; and Alvarez’s account of Sylvia’s suicide, 313–14; separates from partner, 324; and TH denying subjective voice, 332; and SP biographies, 353, 440; meets Jill Barber, 364; Emma Tennant solicits for TH or SP poems, 369; Baskin claims arranges liaison for TH, 373; relations and marriage to Richard Thomas, 383–4; marriage breakdown, 400; temporary move to Cambridge and return to Chetwynd Road, 400; helps TH with work, 404; and TH’s Laureateship, 418; meets Carol, 423; and US libel case against TH, 432; militancy, 439–41; sees stage version of The Iron Man, 490; and TH’s output in 1990s, 492; on TH’s last love affair, 493–4; and TH’s sale of papers to Emory University, 499; and TH’s final illness and death, 539–40; TH entrusts early will to, 545; unmentioned in TH’s final will, 546; shares TH’s posthumous copyright, 547; and Susan Schaeffer’s Poison, 549–51; letter to Natasha Spender, 556; refrains from biography of TH, 558; and Nick’s death, 562; see also Rainbow Press
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