The Grief of Influence ─ Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Winner of the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature and the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies

`a pioneering and intelligently nuanced study that has dug deep into the archives, and which recovers a remarkable flowering of poetic talent from the journalistic vagaries of the recent literary past.'

`In Peter McDonald's important, intelligent and provocative book, a principled attention to form yields genuine insights which elude most critics . . . McDonald's reading of Hill is, like all his readings, perspicacious and revealing.' Adam Kirsch, Times Literary Supplement

The Movement Reconsidered Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries Edited by Zachary Leader `Excellent.' D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement

Heather Clark is Professor of Literature at Marlboro College and teaches Irish Studies at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House. She is the author of The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (OUP, 2006), which won the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book and the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emory University's Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library, and reviews Irish poetry regularly for the Harvard Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.