Ted Hughes

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...

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...

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...

Critics praised CB generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet, and critic Adrian Henri declared her remarkable for...

Critic M. Wynn Thomas reads the Gothic pastoral of The Fox as less an imitation of than a dialogue with Ted Hughes .

The poems in this volume include contributions by Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney , and R. S. Thomas .

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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 ...

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 ,...

RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...

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...

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...