Great Regulars: Ted Hughes made his reputation writing about

the landscape and creatures of his native Yorkshire; he consolidated it after moving to Devon, where he lived for the rest of his life. Here, too, in a landscape which at first glance seems softer than the north, he continued to find amazement and danger. The elements in his later poems are still primitive and indifferent forces; animals, for all their beauty, are predatory, selfish, and born to endure or create suffering.

from Andrew Motion: Telegraph: Finding the forces that shaped Ted Hughes

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