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Ted Hughes

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. 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".

For other people named Ted Hughes, see Ted Hughes (disambiguation).

Ted Hughes
OM OBE FRSL

Elizabeth II

John Betjeman

Andrew Motion

(1930-08-17)17 August 1930
Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England

28 October 1998(1998-10-28) (aged 68)
London, England

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    (m. 1956; died 1963)​
  • Carol Orchard
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    (m. 1970)​

Assia Wevill
(1962–1969)

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Poet, playwright, writer

He married fellow poet Sylvia Plath in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England, in a tumultuous relationship. They had two children before separating in 1962 and Plath ended her own life in 1963.

Hughes's 1983 River anthology was the inspiration for the 2000 River cello concerto by British composer .[89]

Sally Beamish

Selected stories from Hughes' How the Whale Became and The Dreamfighter were adapted into a family opera by composer and writer Edward Kemp, entitled How the Whale Became. Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, the opera was premiered in December 2013.[90]

Julian Philips

Hughes was portrayed by in the 2003 film Sylvia.[91]

Daniel Craig

by Frank Wedekind

Spring Awakening

by Federico García Lorca

Blood Wedding

1968 Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems by , Cape Goliard Press (London, England), revised edition published as Poems, Harper (New York, NY), 1969.

Yehuda Amichai

1977 Amen by , Amen, Harper (New York, NY)

Yehuda Amichai

1989 The Desert of Love: Selected Poems by , Anvil Press Poetry (Greenwich, UK)[92]

János Pilinszky

1997 Tales from Ovid by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)

Ovid

1999 The Oresteia by , Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)

Aeschylus

1999 by Jean Racine, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)

Phèdre

1999 Alcestis by , Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)

Euripides

Ted Hughes Society website

(Spring 1995). "Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71". The Paris Review. Spring 1995 (134).

Heinz, Drue

. Retrieved: 22 February 2010

British Library – modern British Collections on Ted Hughes

. Retrieved: 9 March 2012

Ted Hughes archive at Emory University

at University of Victoria, Special Collections

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath collection

at the British Library

Ted Hughes

at University of Exeter Special Collections

Ted Hughes

Finding aid to Ted Hughes papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.