10 facts about ted hughes

Ted hughes awards
Ted hughes works
Ted hughes biography pdf

•

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

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).^[2] He was raised among the local farms of the Cald

•

Ted Hughes

Edward James (Ted) Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding district of Yorkshire, on August 17, 1930. His childhood was quiet and dominately rural. When he was seven years old his family moved to the small town of Mexborough in South Yorkshire, and the landscape of the moors of that area informed his poetry throughout his life. After high school, Hughes entered the Royal Air Force and served for two years as a ground wireless mechanic. He then moved to Cambridge to attend Pembroke College on an academic scholarship. While in college, he published a few poems, majored in anthropology and archaeology, and studied mythologies extensively. He graduated from Cambridge in 1954.

A few years later, in 1956, Hughes cofounded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. At the launch party for the magazine, he met Sylvia Plath. A few short months later, on June 16, 1956, they were married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript, The Hawk in the Rain, to The Poetry Center’s First Publication book contest. The judg

•

About Ted Hughes

Edward James ‘Ted’ Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd in 1930, the son of William Hughes, a joiner, and Edith Hughes, a textile machinist. In 1938 the Hughes family moved to Mexborough, where Hughes became a poet. In 1951, Hughes went to Cambridge University to study English Literature. At Cambridge he met his first wife, the American poet, Sylvia Plath. The couple were married in 1956. Hughes’s first collection, The Hawk in the Rain, was published the following year. Hughes and Plath subsequently lived in America, London and Devon, and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. The marriage ended with Plath’s suicide in February 1963—the couple had separated five months previously, after Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill.

For most of the rest of the 1960s, Hughes was in a relationship with Wevill. The relationship ended with the deaths of Assia and Shura in March 1969. After this second tragedy, Hughes moved back to Devon with Frieda and Nicholas. In Devon he met