In 2011, several previously unpublished letters from Hughes to Craig Raine were published in the literary review Areté.Areté, Issue 34, Spring/Summer 2011 They relate mainly to the process of editing Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, and also contain a sequence of drafts of letters in which Raine attempts to explain to Hughes his disinclination to publish Hughes's poem The Cast in an anthology he was editing, on the grounds that it might open Hughes to further attack on the subject of Sylvia Plath. "Dear Ted, Thanks for the poem. It is very interesting and would cause a minor sensation" (4 April 1997). The poem was eventually published in Birthday Letters and Hughes makes a passing reference to this then unpublished collection: "I have a whole pile of pieces that are all – one way or another – little bombs for the studious and earnest to throw at me" (5 April 1997).
In 2011 several previously unpublished letters from Hughes to Craig Raine were published in the literary review Areté.Areté, Issue 34, Spring/Summer 2011 They relate mainly to the process of editing Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, and also contain a sequence of dr:afts of letters in which Raine attempts to explain to Hughes his disinclination to publish Hughes's poem The Cast in an anthology he was editing on the grounds that it might open Hughes to further attack on the subject of Sylvia Plath. "Dear Ted, Thanks for the poem. It is very interesting and would cause a minor sensation" (4 Apr,il 1997). The poem was eventually published in Birthday Letters and Hughes makes a passing reference to this then unpublished collection "I have a whole pile of pieces that are all – one way or another – lit,tle bombs for the studious and earnest to throw at me" (5 April 1997).