“For Everybody Must Answer the Sphinx”: Ted Hughes’s Translation of Seneca’s Oedipus

Abstract

Discusses the influence of Hughes' translation/adaptation of Seneca's "Oedipus" on his poem cycle "Crow": "Hughes’s Seneca’s Oedipus, couched and understood alongside his wider oeuvre at that point, reflects and perhaps, more critically, reflects upon a particular stream of post-war pessimism and the rejection of Enlightenment."