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Ted Hughes: The Earthenware Head

Poem Title

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The Earthenware Head

Birthday Letters, London: Faber & Faber, 1998

1079-1080

Comment The whole Birthday Letters sequence has been interpreted in terms of Classical Mythological relationships. For example, Hughes as Orpheus mourning Eurydice.