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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.
Jan 11, 2017 · 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.
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.
Ted Hughes was a monumental literary figure in the 20th century, as he captivated readers with his visceral verse that delved into human conditions and into the depths of the psyche.
Hughes’s lengthy career included more than a dozen books of poetry, translations, nonfiction, and children’s books, such as the famous The Iron Man (Faber & Faber, 1968).
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.
Ted Hughes, O.M. (1930-1998) Edward Hadley (Open University, UK) presents a biographical sketch of Ted Hughes. Born on 17 August 1930, Edward James 'Ted' Hughes would, over the course of his life, produce some of the most important and innovative poetry written in English in the twentieth century.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Prominent themes in Hughes’ poetry include: nature, especially the struggle for survival that is inherent within nature, as well as myth (he was a devotee of Robert Graves’ 1948 book The White Goddess, which argued for a mythical basis for poetic inspiration, centred on the triple goddess of ...
