Ted Hughes

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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Tennant
This describes the author's time as editor of the literary magazine Bananas, and her erotic fling with the poet Ted Hughes , one of her contributors.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Seamus Heaney
He begins here with short pieces about his childhood reading and moves on through his development as a poet, paying tribute to Philip Hobsbaum as an influence. He puts forward the idea that his poetry...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Hughes was pressured to publish SP 's work shortly after her death. Exercising his copyright control as literary executor, he omitted fourteen of the forty-one poems which Plath had prepared in a collection she had...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
An American edition with further selections appeared in 1979.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Ted Hughes wrote the introduction to the US edition, in which he discussed Plath's prose writing. The still-life graphic artist in her was loyal...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Intimate or upsetting passages were censored by Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn Hughes . Ted Hughes has described Plath's journal writing as generally negative self-castigation, or a means of rallying her determination to get...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
Of the journals for the last two years of Plath's life, her husband destroyed one part. He said later that he wanted to protect their children, thinking of forgetfulness as essential to survival.
Rose, Jacqueline. “So many lives, so little time for a desperate poet”. Guardian Weekly, p. 17.
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The...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
In 1986 she published with her introduction, through Turret Books , the Selected Poems of her late brother Harry Fainlight , with a memoir by Allen Ginsberg and a poem by Ted Hughes , in...
Textual Production Frances Horovitz
The year FH died, poems of hers were reprinted by Gillian Clarke , Seamus Heaney , and Ted Hughes in a commemorative pamphlet. The next year Michael Horovitz reprinted others in a similar tribute, A...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB 's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes and Vernon Scannell ) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland ). She began...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
This project had begun with AS 's draft of a brief introduction to the work of Plath, written for the PenguinModern Women series and read in manuscript by Plath's widower, Ted Hughes . He...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF 's Ted Hughes : The Life of a Poet was the first biography to appear of this controversial figure.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Morrison, Blake. “Keeper of a Stubborn Faith”. Guardian Weekly.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP and Ted Hughes recorded Poets in Partnership, a twenty-minute radio interview, for the series Two of a Kind.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
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Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP 's second major collection of poems, Ariel, was published posthumously in a form revised by Ted Hughes .
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published what one critic described as a kind of soap-opera biography or literary thriller about Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes , and Assia Wevill , The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
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Timeline

13 September 1956: Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The...

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13 September 1956

Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The Hawk in the Rain.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
13 September 2010

Late August 1968: Two poets, John Moat and John Fairfax, launched...

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Late August 1968

Two poets, John Moat and John Fairfax , launched the Arvon Foundation with a poetry course at Beaford Arts Centre (in a Victorian house in rural north Devon). Ted Hughes was guest reader on this course.

1980: Ted Hughes published Crow, a poetry volume...

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1980

Ted Hughes published Crow, a poetry volume which became, by poetry standards, a bestseller.

By late October 1989: Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary,...

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By late October 1989

Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary, which Tom Paulin has called his masterpiece.

1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...

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1998-9

In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy third...

18 October 1998: Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes...

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18 October 1998

Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes died, the Sunday Times carried his poem entitled The Offers, which he had excluded from both his books published this year, Birthday Letters (his last major collection)...

28 October 1998: Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate and widower of...

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28 October 1998

Ted Hughes , Poet Laureate and widower of Sylvia Plath , died.
The Ted Hughes Homepage. http://web.archive.org/web/20091028202301/http://www.zeta.org.au/~annskea/THHome.htm.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

Texts

Plath, Sylvia. Collected Poems. Editor Hughes, Ted, Faber and Faber, 1981.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Harper and Row, 1979, pp. 1-9.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, pp. 13-17.
Plath, Sylvia. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. Editor Hughes, Ted, Harper and Row, 1979.
Hughes, Ted. Letters of Ted Hughes. Editor Reid, Christopher, Faber and Faber, 2007.
Plath, Sylvia. Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems. Editor Hughes, Ted, Faber and Faber.
Plath, Sylvia. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Editors Hughes, Ted and Frances McCullough, Dial.