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Ted Hughes
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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Fleur Adcock | After Ted Hughes
died on 28 October 1998, FA
's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion
. Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received... |
Reception | Patricia Beer | According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led... |
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... |
Literary responses | Catherine Byron | Critics praised CB
generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore
in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet, |
Literary responses | Gillian Clarke | Critic M. Wynn Thomas
reads the Gothic pastoral Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48 Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer. 48-9 |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC
answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare
(written for the John Clare Society
) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early... |
Publishing | Jeni Couzyn | The volume carried blurbs by distinguished names (Ted Hughes
and Philip Hobsbaum
) and her own line drawings. Maggs Bros Rare Books
recently advertised a copy inscribed to Kathleen Raine
. William and Nina Matheson Books, Inc. http://www.mathesonbooks.com/. “Alan Clodd Library”. Maggs Bros Rare Books. |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | JC
edited for the 1970 Camden Festival a volume of twelve specially commissioned and previously unprinted poems, entitled Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day, published through the Poets' Trust
. This collection (whose cover gave... |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
was deemed to be a top candidate to fill the position of Poet Laureate (left vacant by the death of Ted Hughes
). She was considered the popular choice, but the appointment went to... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath
, D. H. Lawrence
, Thom Gunn
, Ted Hughes
, Cesare Pavese
, Eugene Ionesco
, Simone de Beauvoir
, Jorge Luis Borges
,... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | RF
and her husband met Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
in 1961, on the occasion of Hughes's winning the Hawthornden Prize, as Alan Sillitoe had done the previous year. The foursome first met, Fainlight recalled... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes
survived Plath's death. RF
later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill
sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia... |
Publishing | Ruth Fainlight | RF
collaborated on a slim volume of Poems with Ted Hughes
and her husband, Alan Sillitoe
. This was published in 1971 by Rainbow Press
, an organization set up this year by Olwyn Hughes |
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
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.