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Edward James 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.
Assia Esther Wevill (née Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German-Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes.
MCCRUM ON BOOKS: The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his ...
Her Husband: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath, a Marriage (2003) Diane Helen Middlebrook ( née Wood ; April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007) [ 1 ] was an American biographer , poet , and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University .
Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
Court Green is a house in North Tawton, Devon, England.It was the home the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath moved to in late August 1961. [1]Plath left the house on 10 December 1962, while Hughes lived there on and off for the rest of his life.
Hughes is the daughter of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was an American novelist and poet, and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Hughes was almost three; her father died of a heart attack while being treated for cancer.
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, said: