Hughes critics

One man…

…gynocidal movement (Bate)

Voyeur of…

…violence (Bedient)

He himself was part of that…

…landscape, elemental, unchangeable (Bate)

The embodiment of…

…egotistical nihilism (Holbrook)

He wants to undermine our sese of the ordinary…

…and let in a sense of the miraculous (Sagar)

Hughes has no…

…moral lesson to teach (C B Cox)

He saw rural England as…

…his subculture, the place he knew best, the source of his literary voice (Bate)

A spokesperson for the…

…the hidden and violent beings we partly are (McCraig)

Hughes’s work is adequate to the…

…destructive reality we inhabit (Bate)

Descent in to poetic self-indulgence…

…misogyny, and the all too parodical blackness (Bate)