Great Regulars: [Ted] Hughes was as much a sophisticated student

of anthropology and comparative religion as he was a radio playwright, a translator into English of Wedeking, Lorca, and Racine, and the author of more than a dozen books for children. Instead of primitive, all these modern poets may actually have been too highly evolved for the rude world they were stuck in; they grew gills for breathing not in water but in words.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Letters of Ted Hughes

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