Bemis Heights, Battle of
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Bemis Heights, Battle of also known as
Second Battle of Saratoga (October 7, 1777) a conclusive American
Revolutionary War victory that resulted in the capture of more than 5,800 British troops, the first time this had happened on American soil. This battle was notable for the heroism displayed by Gen.
Benedict Arnold. American troops led by Maj. Gen.
Horatio Gates repulsed British forces under Maj. Gen.
John Burgoyne marching to push through the American line on Bemis Heights. Taking the fight to the enemy, the Americans successfully assaulted the British line, forcing them into a retreat toward Saratoga, where Burgoyne sought terms of surrender ten days later.
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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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 "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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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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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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 "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; 638 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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Poet Ted Hughes' daughter accuses stepmother of withholding money
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/26/2002; 441 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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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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Terminator: The Legacy of Ted Hughes
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Terminator: The Legacy of Ted Hughes Her Husband: Hughes and Plath...25.95 Collected Poems. By Ted Hughes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November...Lowell and Jean Stafford, as well as Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath-inevitably ended...
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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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