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Ted Hughes

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Born: August 16 1930

Died: 2727 10 19981998

Edward James Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. His most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.

The dialect of Hughes's native West Riding area of Yorkshire set the tone of his verse. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of particular interest, a concern that was reflected in a number of his poems. In 1956 he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. The couple made a visit to the United States in 1957, the year that his first volume of verse,
The Hawk in the Rain
, was published. Other works soon followed.

Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for almost three years following Plath's suicide in 1963 , but thereafter he published prolifically, often in collaboration with photographers and illustrators, as in Under the North Star . He wrote many volumes for children, including Remains of Elmet , in which he recalled the world of his childhood. From 1965 he was co-editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in London. Some of Hughes's essays on subjects of literary and cultural criticism were published as Winter Pollen . After decades of silence on the subject of his marriage to Plath, Hughes addressed it in the poems of
Birthday Letters
. He was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984.

Ted Hughes was the father of Frieda Hughes and the brother of Gerald Hughes.

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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Books from Ted Hughes

The Collected Poems

Birthday Letters

The Iron Man

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Rattle Bag

Collected Poems

The Hawk in the Rain

Letters of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes: Poems Selected by Simon Armitage

The Paris Review Interviews, III

How the Whale Became and Other Stories

Collected Poems of Vasko Popa

Diari

The Iron Woman

The Remains of Elmet

Poetry in the Making: A Handbook for Writing and Teaching

Vasko Popa: Selected Poems

Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid