Ted Hughes

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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Fay Weldon
Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath , David and Assia Wevill , Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard , Bernice Rubens , psychologist R. D. Laing
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.
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, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
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Family and Intimate relationships Emma Tennant
ET began a relationship with Michael Dempsey that lasted during the 1970s. This was followed by another long-term partnership, with writer Tim Owens , which proved to be her final one.
Montague-Smith, Patrick, editor. Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett’s Peerage and Gale Research, http://HSS Ref CS 420 D28.
Haffenden, John, and Emma Tennant. “John Haffenden talks to Emma Tennant”. The Literary Review, Vol.
66
, pp. 37-41.
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She also had...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
The same year ET published another book of memoirs entitled Burnt Diaries, which deals with the sensitive topic of her affair with Ted Hughes .
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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.
xx
, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
3
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Stevenson
He came back into her adult life in September 1953, and finally the Great Marriage Problem seemed settled.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
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American boyfriends tried to dissuade her, but she ignored them boneheadedly.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 279
She...
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 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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Publishing Sylvia Plath
Another posthumous collection of SP 's poems, Crystal Gazer, was published by the Rainbow Press , which had been set up that year by Olwyn Hughes at her brother 's suggestion to produce high-quality limited editions.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Feinstein, Elaine. Ted Hughes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP 's Collected Poems were published, nearly twenty years after her death: they were edited with an introduction by Ted Hughes .
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
SP 's Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Hughes , were posthumously published.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Textual Production Sylvia Plath
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil , appeared after the death of Plath's husband, Ted Hughes : the first printing of the entire corpus of Plath's surviving journals.
Rose, Jacqueline. “So many lives, so little time for a desperate poet”. Guardian Weekly, p. 17.
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Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Plath
At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes , a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal...
Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Plath
SP married Ted Hughes at the Church of St George the Martyr in Bloomsbury, London, on James Joyce 's Bloomsday.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster.
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Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. Seabury Press.
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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.
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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.