This volume contains writings by English poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998) that cover a period of over thirty years and include essays, book reviews, commissioned articles, prefaces, autobiographical reflections, and items never before published. He writes about Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Sylvia Plath as well as the structure of poetry, the value of myths, education, the act of writing, and himself.