Scout Rock, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, 23–7
Season Songs (TH; poems for children), 326–7, 349, 365, 413, 414, 506, 513
Secker and Warburg (publishers), 367
‘Secret of Man’s Wife, The’ (TH; story), 495
‘Secretary’ (TH; poem), 88–9, 183
Selected Poems (TH; 1974), 322, 413; (1982 edition), 414, 496
Seneca: Oedipus, 256–8, 282, 306
‘Setebos’ (TH; poem), 458, 519
Seven Samurai (film), 182
Sexton, Anne, 252
Seymour, Brian, 38
‘Shakespeare, drafting his will in 1605, plots an autobiographical play for 1606’ (TH; poem), 544
Shakespeare, Edmund (William’s nephew), 545
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (TH), 20, 67, 165, 261, 459, 461, 465–71, 477, 483, 487, 489–90
Shakespeare, William: TH reveres, 13, 54–5, 457; qualities, 20; Fisher teaches, 53; TH writes on, 325; TH edits choice of verse, 459, 485; and mythology, 460, 463, 469, 473–4; TH’s interpretation of, 461–74; and ‘new criticism’, 471; obscures own self, 532; TH’s poem on drafting will, 544; All’s Well that Ends Well, 468–71; As You Like It, 465; Comedy of Errors, 487, 497; Hamlet, 442; Henry IV plays, 462; Henry VIII (with Fletcher), 458; King Lear, 260–2, 307, 442, 469, 544–5; Macbeth, 285; Measure for Measure, 462, 465; Midsummer Night’s Dream, 307; The Rape of Lucrece, 462; Sonnets, 469; The Tempest, 307, 460, 465; Timon of Athens, 523; Troilus and Cressida, 469, 471; Twelfth Night, 497; The Two Noble Kinsmen (with Fletcher), 54, 458, 471; Venus and Adonis, 56, 462, 465; The Winter’s Tale, 532–3
Shakespeare’s Ovid (TH; translations), 495
‘Shall I die? Shall I fly?’ (supposed Shakespeare lyric), 475–6
‘Sheep in Fog’ (SP; poem), 220, 237, 394, 473–4; TH’s essay on, 491
Shelley, Mary, 354
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Defence of Poetry, 85
Shirley (Cambridge girlfriend), 89–92, 97–101, 105, 113, 115, 514, 522
Shura see Wevill, Alexandra Tatiana Elise
Shuttle, Penelope, 268, 299, 402, 465
Sigmund, Elizabeth see Compton, Elizabeth
Sillitoe, Alan, 174, 184, 229, 247, 295, 299, 372, 490
Silvine Notebook (TH), 511–14
‘Single Vision and Newton’s Sleep in John Carey’ (TH; essay), 470
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century poem), 88; TH translates, 538
‘Six Young Men’ (TH; poem), 102, 137, 273
Sjöman, Vilgot, 333
‘Skylarks’ (TH; lyrics), 289
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.: SP teaches at, 127, 129, 133
Smith, Shirley, 563
‘Snake in the Oak, The’ (TH; essay), 491
‘Snow’ (TH; poem), 450–1
Soho House, London, 490
‘Soho Square’ (TH; poem), 206–7, 215, 526
‘Some Pike for Nicholas’ (TH; poem), 539
Somerset Maugham Award, 162, 175
‘Song’ (TH; poem), 63, 331, 337, 460, 480, 506
‘Song of a Rat’ (TH; poem), 251
‘Song of the Sorry Lovers’ (TH; poem), 79
Sonnenberg, Ben, 55, 94–5, 288, 433, 440, 476
‘Sorrows of the Deer’ (TH; notebook), 325, 511–14, 517–24
Sotheby’s (auction house): sells SP’s manuscripts, 385, 413
Soundings (Donya Feuer’s one-woman show), 465
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of, 468
Spain: TH and SP visit, 119–22; Assia visits with TH, 193, 203
Spectator (magazine), 167, 239, 297, 396
Spender, Natasha, 168, 556
Spender, Stephen, 125, 168–9, 243, 252–3, 292, 481, 556
Spitteler, Carl: Prometheus and Epimetheus, 64
Spoleto: Festival dei Due Mondo, 242–3
Spring Summer Autumn Winter (TH; songs for children), 326
Steeleye Span (folk band), 334
Steiner, George, 76, 239, 345, 347–8
Stevenson, Anne: Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, 19, 440
Stewart, Hamish, 98, 100, 103–4
Stoppard, Tom, 308
‘Stopped Dead’ (SP; poem), 237
Storey, David, 229
Story of Vasco, The (TH; opera libretto), 322
Stothard, Peter, 503
Streatfeild, Noel, 509
Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia, 496
‘Suffering Angel’ (SP; essay), 202
‘Suitor, The’ (TH; story), 249, 250
Sumpter, John, 426
‘Sunday’ (TH; story), 251
Sunday Times, 469–70, 476
‘Sunstroke’ (TH; poem), 163
‘Sunstruck Foxglove’ (TH; poem), 366, 430
‘Superstitions’ (TH; poem), 510
Supple, Tim, 497–9, 538
Sutcliffe, John, 34
Sweeney, Jack, 136
Swift, Jonathan, 71, 491
Switzerland: TH visits, 83
Sykes Davies, Hugh, 74
Sylvia (film), 548
Symons, Julian, 334
‘Table, The’ (TH; poem), 178
Tales from Ovid (TH; verse translations), 491, 528–31, 538
Tarn, Nathaniel, 190, 193–4, 196, 203, 220, 275, 316
Taylor, Elizabeth, 257
Taylor, Gary, 475
Tennant, Emma, 368–72, 381, 542, 553; Burnt Diaries, 369–70, 373, 548
‘Thalidomide’ (SP; poem), 236
‘That Morning’ (TH; poem), 5, 18, 411, 414, 420
‘That Sunday Night’ (or ‘February 10th’; TH; poem), 214–15, 524
Thatcher, Denis, 426
Thatcher, Margaret, 418, 425–6, 482
Thomas, Dylan, 74, 85, 88, 125–6, 127, 146, 180; Under Milk Wood (play), 134; ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ (poem), 541
Thomas, Edward, 40, 145, 164
Thomas the Rhymer, 543
Thomas, Richard, 383–4, 400
Thomas, Trevor: Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters, 442
‘Thought-Fox, The’ (TH; poem), 75, 94, 137–8, 145, 199, 271, 273, 362, 409
Three Books (TH; poems), 395–6, 411, 429, 489
Thribb, E.J. (fictional poet), 14
‘Thrushes’ (TH; poem), 145, 163–4
Thwaite, Anthony, 251
Tibbles, Maurice, 402
Time magazine, 240
Times, The, 503–4
Times Literary Supplement, 166, 308
Timmy the Tug (TH and Jim Downer; children’s book), 111
Todmorden: Hughes family moves to, 65, 73
Tolstoy, Leo, 477
Tomalin, Claire (née Delavenay), 78
Tomalin, Nicholas, 78
Top Withens, Yorkshire (‘Wuthering Heights’), 45, 123, 392–3, 397, 400, 536
Tormey, Pat, 276
Toronto, 368
Torridge Action Group, 410
Townshend, Pete, 490, 497
‘Tragic Equation in The Two Noble Kinsmen, The’ (TH; study), 471–2
Trask, Spencer and Katrina, 154
Trentham, Barbara, 364
Trevor, William, 188
‘Trial’ (TH; unpublished poem), 11, 442–7
tricksters: in folk tradition, 289
Tsvetaeva, Marina, 369
Turgenev, Ivan: First Love, 228
Turner, David, 256
Two of a Kind: Poets in Partnership (interview), 172
‘Two photographs of Top Withens’ (TH; poem), 397
‘Two Views of Withens’ (SP; poem), 123
‘Two Wise Generals’ (TH; poem), 102
Tynan, Kenneth, 257
‘Under High Wood’ (TH; poem), 428
Under the North Star (TH; children’s poems), 413–14
Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 252
‘Unicorn, The’ (TH; poem), 487
United States of America: TH’s first impressions of, 129–30; TH and SP travel in, 149–54; TH’s campus readings in, 302
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 138–42
Valéry, Paul, 320
Vallon, Annette, 520
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 227
Varèse, Edgar, 155
Vasco (TH; play/opera), 256
Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, 533
Victoria, Lake (Africa), 405
Vienna University, 246
‘View of a Pig’ (TH; poem), 271, 273
Viking Press (New York), 326, 387
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), 13–14
‘Visit’ (TH; poem), 519
‘Voyage, The’ (TH; poem), 145
Wagner, Richard, 481; Tristan und Isolde, 402
Wagner-Martin, Linda W.: A Biography of Sylvia Plath, 440
Wain, John, 191
‘Walt’ (TH; poem), 428
Wanamaker, Sam, 544
Waterlog (magazine), 539
Watkinson (headmaster), 55
Watling, Vicky (née Bottomley; TH’s cousin), 184, 213
Waugh, Evelyn, 70, 488, 509
‘Waving Goodbye’ (TH; poem), 341
Wedekind, Frank: Spring Awakening, 495, 497–9
Weiss, Peter: Marat/Sade, 255
Weissbort, Danny, 85–6, 99, 147, 233, 252, 283, 299, 430, 476
Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds, 262
Welsford, Enid, 98
Wesker, Arnold, 229; Roots, 168
Westminster Abbey: Poets’ Corner, 5
Wevill, Alexandra Tatiana Elise (Shura; TH’s daughter): birth and babyhood, 240, 242, 245–6; and TH’s relations with Assia, 265–6; in Germany with TH and Assia, 270; death, 274–5, 277, 408, 455–6, 459; Crow dedicated to memory, 286, 331, 343; in TH poems, 450, 456; in TH’s Capriccio, 450
Wevill, Assia (née Gutmann): TH’s relations with, 4, 188, 190–1, 196–7, 200, 203, 209–10, 214, 220–4, 225–6, 231, 242, 248, 265, 272, 296; depressive episodes, 27, 271; beauty, 185, 253; visits TH and SP in Devon, 185–6; TH calls on, 190; Spanish holiday with TH, 193, 203; marriage relations, 203, 205, 220–1; reads SP’s journal and unfinished novel, 220, 247; abortion, 221; Aunt Hilda’s aversion to, 223; economical with expenditure, 223; hostility to Olwyn, 223; miscarriage, 225; writing, 228; child by TH (Shura), 240, 242; accompanies TH to Spoleto Festival, 242–3; illustrations, 242; in Ireland with TH, 245; leaves David and lives with TH, 245, 247; TH’s parents dislike, 246–7, 253; makes will, 247, 266; provides for Shura’s future, 247; returns to London, 255–6; reconciled with Olwyn, 256; assists at rehearsals of Oedipus, 257; dislikes production of Seneca’s Oedipus, 260; Amichai translations published, 269; visits Germany with TH, 269–70; visits Dublin with TH, 271; and TH’s television recording in Manchester, 272–3; househunting in North with TH, 273–4, 286; divorce from David finalised, 274; suicide and cremation, 274–6, 278–9, 339–40, 342, 408, 459, 514; Crow dedicated to memory, 286, 331, 343; Alvarez and, 315–16; in TH’s Orts, 342; Robin Morgan cites, 347–8; initial branded on Nick’s jaguar sculpture, 449–50; in TH’s Capriccio, 450–2, 522; and TH’s ‘Sacrifice’, 450; Jewishness, 452; and TH’s ‘A’ poems, 452–6; TH’s poetry sequence on, 453–4; TH’s confessional poems on, 496, 507
Wevill, David, 185–6, 188, 190, 194, 203, 205, 220–1, 231, 242, 274, 316
What is the Truth? (TH; children’s book), 414, 558
‘Where the Mothers’ (TH; poem), 391
Whitbread Prize: awarded to TH, 506, 529
Whitby, 169
White, Eric, 206
White, Tony, 302
Whitman, Walt, 334
Wholey, Alice (née Wilson), 54–5, 58
Wholey, Edna, 58–9, 62, 72
Wholey, John, 57–8
Wicker Man, The (film), 333
Wild Steelhead and Salmon (fishing magazine), 409
Wilde, Oscar, 457, 462, 468, 472
‘Wilfred Owen’s Photographs’ (TH; poem), 164
William, Prince, 419, 484
Williams, Tennessee, 361
Williams, William Carlos, 101, 147
Williamson, Henry: TH delivers memorial address, 50; Fascist sympathies, 52; Boddy admires, 85; The Patriot’s Progress, 51; Tarka the Otter, 49–51, 486
Wilson, Harold, 230, 464
‘Wind’ (TH; poem), 137, 160, 273
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose (TH; critical writings), 491
Winter Trees (SP; poems), 346
‘Wintering’ (SP; poem), 237
Winters, Yvor, 8
‘Wisdom Book’ (TH; unfinished), 17
With Fairest Flowers while Summer Lasts (TH; US publication of A Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse), 461, 464
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 69
‘Wodwo’ (TH; poem), 273
Wodwo (TH; poetry/story collection): writing, 201; published, 248, 288; explained, 249–51, 272, 376; reviewed, 251; US publication, 256; TH’s self in, 332
Wolfwatching (TH; collection), 189, 396, 428–9
‘Woman with Such High Heels She Looked Dangerous, The’ (TH; poem), 79
‘Woman Unconscious, A’ (TH; poem), 165
Woolf, Virginia, 131, 457, 462, 468, 472
‘Words’ (SP; poem), 220
‘Words heard, by accident, over the phone’ (SP; poem), 188
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 273, 404, 492, 522
Wordsworth, William: on poetry, 12; TH likened to, 13; memorable lines, 15; and memory, 24–5, 520–1; and individual experience, 43–5; Fisher admires, 54; TH sees grave, 305; TH praises, 404; close relations with Dorothy, 492; and Annette Vallon, 520; poetic voice, 522; ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ (sonnet), 520–1, 525; ‘Lucy’, 198, 395; The Prelude, 109, 404, 417, 507, 515, 517–18, 521, 564; ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’, 393; ‘Tintern Abbey’, 563
‘Working Definition of Mythic, A’ (TH; draft), 473
World Poets Festival, Second (Dhaka, 1989), 375–6
World War I, TH’s poems on, 428–9, 516
World War II, 48–9, 516
Worth, Irene, 257, 277
Wound, The (TH; radio play), 248, 332
‘Wound, The’ (TH; story), 40, 233
Wright, Carolyne, 377–8
Wright, Claudia, 362
Wright, Michael, 407
Writers on Themselves (BBC radio series), 24
Wuthering Heights (fictional location) see Top Withens
‘Wuthering Heights’ (SP; poem), 123, 393
Wyatt-Brown, Bert, 98–9
Yaddo (artists’ community), New York state, 148, 154–7, 159, 216, 354, 508
Yeats, William Butler, 20, 54, 67, 91–2, 123–4, 192, 202; ‘Among School Children’, 475
Yellowstone National Park (USA), 150–1
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 243, 369
York, Susanna, 477
‘You Claw the Door’ (earlier ‘Hathershelf’; TH; poem), 392–5
‘You Hated Spain’ (TH; poem), 189, 414, 515
Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of New York (YMYWHA), 125
Your Environment (magazine), 298
‘You’re’ (SP; poem), 387
Zabel, Morton, 148
By the Same Author
Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism 1730–1830
Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
Shakespeare and Ovid
Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History (co-editor)
The Genius of Shakespeare
The Cure for Love
The Song of the Earth
John Clare: A Biography
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
The Public Value of the Humanities (editor)
Shakespeare Staging the World (with Dora Thornton)
About the Author
Jonathan Bate is a biographer, critic and broadcaster. His many books include The Genius of Shakespeare, described by Sir Peter Hall as ‘the best modern book on
Shakespeare’; a biography of the poet John Clare, which won Britain’s two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize; Soul of the Age, an intellectual life of Shakespeare which was runner-up for the Biography Prize of PEN America; and The Song of the Earth, a pioneering book on poetry and the environment. He is also author of a novel, The Cure for Love, and the hit one-man play for Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare. A Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. Married to the author Paula Byrne, he has a CBE for services to higher education and he was knighted in 2015 for his services to literary scholarship.
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