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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.
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 ...
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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]
In 1957 Plath submitted the collection to a competition organised by the Poetry Centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York. The judges, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Marianne Moore, awarded it the first prize. Marianne Moore wrote: "Hughes's talent is unmistakable, the work has focus, is aglow with feeling ...
On the third anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, August 20, 2024 Hughes finished a triathlon. “I did my own personal triathlon, running out of the hospital in Moncton, New Brunswick where I was ...
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The Blue Flannel Suit" is a poem by Ted Hughes published in 1998 in his book Birthday Letters. The 30th of 88 poems in the collection, "The Blue Flannel Suit" is one of several in the series explicitly about his wife Sylvia Plath . [ 1 ]