Ted Hughes

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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted

Connections

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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
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...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Plath
David and Assia Wevill , a Canadian poet and his wife who had rented SP 's and Ted Hughes 's former flat in London, visited them for a weekend in Devon.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
156-7
Friends, Associates Elaine Feinstein
While she was teaching at Essex, EF met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn , who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard
Leisure and Society Sylvia Plath
SP and Ted Hughes attended a writers' retreat in Yaddo, Saratoga Springs.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
xiii, 126
Literary responses Philip Larkin
PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...
Literary responses Gillian Clarke
Critic M. Wynn Thomas reads the Gothic pastoral
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
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of The Fox as less an imitation of than a dialogue with Ted Hughes .
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
48-9
Literary responses Elaine Feinstein
The cover of this volume bears a tribute from Ted Hughes : She is an extremely fine poet. . . . Her simple, clean language follows the track of the nerves. There is nothing hit...
Literary responses Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
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,
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and critic Adrian Henri declared her remarkable for...
Occupation Frances Horovitz
FH read poetry by American and English poets for Longmans 's Poetry 1900 to 1965 recording (an audio version of their Poetry, 1900-1965 anthology), selected by Ted Hughes and directed by George MacBeth .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Occupation Frances Horovitz
At the annual Ilkley Literature Festival, FH was one of four chosen to perform in the first production of Cave Birds by Ted Hughes .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literature Online, the home of literature and criticism. http://lion.chadwyck.com.
Occupation Frances Horovitz
MacBeth was an influential BBC producer responsible for several regular poetry programmes. The Doomsday Show, not published until 1965, established him as a poet in his own right, and he went on to publish...
Occupation Frances Horovitz
Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence

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