News at Eleven: [Ted Hughes] also offered increasingly penetrating analyses

of the creative process, as shaped by his own engagement with--and artistic avoidance of--his psychic dramas. In another letter to [Moelwyn] Merchant, he confesses a belief that "whatever we work at, in the way of imaginative creation, operates as a conjuration, a ritual summoning of all energies associated with the subject matter--from levels that our normal activities can rarely tap. And those energies are good or bad for us--helpful or destructive--almost in the style of demonic entities--according to our subject matter, & the moral-imaginative interpretation we make of it."

from Truthdig: Regina Marler on Ted Hughes' Letters

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