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Ted Hughes
For other people named Ted Hughes, see Ted Hughes (disambiguation).
English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)
Edward James HughesOM 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. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008, The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
He married fellow poet Sylvia Plath, an American, in 1956. They lived together in the United States and then in England, in what was known to be a tumultuous relationship. They had two children before separating in 1962. Plath ended her own life in 1963.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to William Henry (1894–1981) and
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Edward James HughesOMOBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Early life
Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to William Henry (1894–1981) and Edith (née Farrar) Hughes (1898–1969), and raised among the local farms of the Calder Valley and on the Pennine moorland.
Hughes's father, William, a joiner, was of Irish descent and had enlisted with the Lancashire Fusiliers in the First World War and fought at Ypres.
Hughes loved hunting and fishing, swimming, and picnicking with his family. He attended the Burnley Road School until he was seven befor
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Edward James Hughes,Order of Merit, known to the world as Ted Hughes, (August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998) was best known for writing children's literature and poetry. Born and raised in England, he served as the country's Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Hughes was consistently listed by critics as one of the best poets of his generation.[1]
Hughes stated that poems, like animals, are each one "an assembly of living parts, moved by a single spirit." In his early works Hughes questioned humanity's function in the universal scheme. Seriously interested in shamanism, hermeticism, astrology, and the Ouija board, Hughes examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos.[2]
He married the American poet Sylvia Plath. They formed a unique literary bond that ended in tragedy when he left her for another woman and she committed suicide.
Early life
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