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Hughes, Ted (Edward James)
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Hughes, Ted (Edward James) (1930–98), poet, born in West Yorkshire, the son of a carpenter, and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he met Sylvia
Plath, whom he married in 1956. His obsession with animals and his sense of the beauty and violence of the natural world appear in his first volume,
The Hawk in the Rain (1957). This was followed by
Lupercal (1960),
Wodwo (1967, prose and verse), and several books of children's verse.
Crow (1970) is a sequence of poems introducing the central symbol of the crow. Hughes retells the legends of creation and birth through the dark vision of predatory, mocking, indestructible crow. Later volumes include
Cave Birds (1975),
Season Songs (1976), and
Moortown (1979). He has also published plays for children, a version of
Seneca's Oedipus (1968), and edited various anthologies.
Remains of Elmet (1979) celebrates the landscape of his youth in the Calder valley;
River (1983) is a sequence of poems invoking riverside and river life. Together these volumes constitute interesting examples of the renewed vogue for
topographical poetry. He was appointed poet laureate in 1984. More recent volumes include
Wolfwatching (1989),
Rain-Charm for the Duchy (1992),
New Selected Poems (1995), and
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992), a prose work.
Winter Pollen (1995) is a collection of occasional prose.
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Ted Hughes and the corpus of Sylvia Plath.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...coffin that will not be silent. --Ted Hughes It is Plath's (Medusan) speechlessness...definitionally to be antagonistic to Ted Hughes, Plath's estranged husband at...reason for this presumption may be Ted Hughes's insistence on the final authority...
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Ted Hughes's archetypal marriage with Sylvia Plath: Birthday Letters, Her Husband, and Jungian alchemical individuation.
Magazine article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath--A Marriage...materials newly made available after Ted Hughes's death in 1998. The former Stanford...psychologically oriented interpretation of the Ted Hughes--Sylvia Plath marriage, one showing...
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Ted Hughes: the Life of a Poet.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Elaine Feinstein Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet W. W. Norton...secrets surrounding the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--the most brilliant...biographer (others are also at work) of Ted Hughes. Now, at last, the major questions...
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How huge was Ted Hughes? This 'complete' collection allows us to assess the former Poet Laureate's work properly, says Anthony Thwaite
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/26/2003; ; 700+ words
; Ted Hughes: Collected Poems ed by Paul Keegan Faber...pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHEN Ted Hughes died in October 1998, his reputation was...times have seemed daunting. How good was Ted Hughes, and will his poems last? My conviction...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Books: Disappointing look at life of a poet; Ted Hughes -- The Life of a Poet. By Elaine Feinstein (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25).(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 12/15/2001; 700+ words
; ...Weeks before his death in 1998, Ted Hughes wrote to me about his regrets over...to write the biography days after Ted Hughes's funeral, that she hesitated...in February 1999. Feinstein knew Ted Hughes well, alongwith his sister Olwyn...
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Letters of Ted Hughes.
Magazine article from: Harvard Review; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; LETTERS OF TED HUGHES selected and edited by Christopher Reid...Elaine Showalter published a review of Ted Hughes's letters in the Chronicle of Higher...a headline that ran, "Who Remembers Ted Hughes? A New Volume of Letters Goes Unnoticed...
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Poet Ted Hughes' daughter accuses stepmother of withholding money
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/26/2002; 440 words
; ...Dateline: LONDON The daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath is accusing her...sent her a check six months after Ted Hughes' death for a portion of his works...lawyer, Damon Parker, as saying Ted Hughes' letter had no legal status. Mr...
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 "Express & Echo (Exeter UK)")
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Ted Hughes collection at uni boosted by new gift ; New artifacts from the late poet laureate Ted Hughes are set to be given to Exeter University by his widow - making the city one of the prime locations for scholars of the writer's work.
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 10/28/2008; 631 words
; ...artifacts from the late poet laureate Ted Hughes are set to be given to Exeter University...personality and teasing sense of humour. Ted Hughes made Devon his home for many years...The recording of Leonard Baskin and Ted Hughes has been set to a series of images...
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Imagining Ted Hughes: authorship, authenticity, and the symbolic work of Collected Poems.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Ted Hughes's recently published Collected Poems...Hughes the husband is here as well. Today Ted Hughes is an extraordinarily loaded sign, the...investigating the complex processes at work in Ted Hughes's erratic and sometimes volatile reception...
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Man who stopped the twittering Appreciation of Ted Hughes
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/3/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...s successor as Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. As memory serves - and he wasn...Hughes went all over the world. Ted Hughes, for it is his passport, married...say so much about their marriage. Ted Hughes was, I believe, a great man, a...
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Ted Hughes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ted Hughes Ted Hughes (born 1930) was an eminent English poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation starting in the late 1950s. He was named poet laureate in 1985. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in the Yorkshire town of Mytholmroyd...
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Hughes, Ted
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Hughes, Ted ( Edward James ) (1930–98...distinctive voices in contemporary English verse, Hughes focused on the raw, primal forces of nature...Ovid (1997) won the Whitbread Prize. Hughes married (1956–62) fellow poet...
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Hughes, Ted (Edward James)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Hughes, Ted (Edward James) (1930–98), poet, born in West Yorkshire...1970) is a sequence of poems introducing the central symbol of the crow. Hughes retells the legends of creation and birth through the dark vision of predatory...
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Sylvia Plath
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...college. Plath was married to the poet Ted Hughes and was the mother of two children...1979); journals, ed. by T. Hughes and F. McCullough (1983); The...The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1994); T. Hughes, Birthday...
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Crosse, Gordon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...mez., orch. (1971); The New World , 6 poems by Ted Hughes, v., pf. (1978).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qt...1983).FOR CHILDREN: Meet My Folks! (poems by Ted Hughes), spkr., children's ch., instr. (1964); Potter...
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