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Edward James "Ted" Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) [1] was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
Ted Hughes, one of the giants of twentieth-century British poetry, was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire. After serving in the Royal Air Force, Hughes attended Cambridge, where he studied archeology and anthropology and took a special interest in myths and legends.
Ted Hughes (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London) was an English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.
Jun 13, 2024 · Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, noted poets, had a troubled relationship. The full scope of its tragic nature was revealed in letters after she took her life.
Jan 11, 2017 · 10 of the Best Ted Hughes Poems Everyone Should Read. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Ted Hughes (1930-98) remains one of the most divisive English poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and not just because of the controversy surrounding his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
Ted Hughes was a 20th-century English poet who was celebrated for his poems, children’s writing, and translations. His poetry is best known for its vivid imagery, its use of nature symbolism, and its exploration of dark and elemental themes.
Hughes’s work is marked by a mythical framework, using the lyric and dramatic monologue to illustrate intense subject matter. Animals appear frequently throughout his work as deity, metaphor, persona, and icon.
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is a brooding presence in the landscape of 20th Century poetry, not unlike the six hundred feet-high Scout Rock which overshadowed his Yorkshire childhood.
Oct 15, 2015 · Ted Hughes was an elemental poet of myth and nature, his verse easy to parody. In the late 1960s, the British satirical magazine Private Eye mimicked his work in a manner that Jonathan Bate, in his new biography of Hughes, describes this way: “crow, blood, mud, death, short line, break, no verb.”
Introductions to the major collections and editions of Hughes's poetry from a range of writers and scholars
