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Oct 28, 1998 · Ted Hughes (1930-1998) - Find a Grave Memorial. Advertisement. Photo added by Terry Ellen (Todd) Ferl. Ted Hughes. Original Name. Edward James Hughes. Birth. 17 Aug 1930. Mytholmroyd, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.
A memorial to Ted [Edward James] Hughes O.M., O.B.E. was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey on 6th December 2011 by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The stone is at the foot of the memorial to T.S. Eliot and opposite the monument to Geoffrey Chaucer. It was designed and carved by Ronald Parsons in Kirkstone green slate.
Hughes joins 111 writers memorialized in Poets’ Corner in the area where Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in 1400 — not because he wrote “The Canterbury Tales,” but because he was Clerk of the Works at the nearby Palace of Westminster, now almost entirely rebuilt.
Ted Hughes. 1930-1998. Ted Hughes' funeral service was held on 3rd November 1998 at St. Peter's Church, North Tawton, Devon. His body was subsequently cremated in Exeter with only his close family in attendance. (At the church service fellow poet Seamus Heaney read two of Hughes' own poems and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas.)
Jan 17, 2024 · Ted Hughes was one of the hero figures in post-war British poetry. TS Eliot himself published and championed Hughes’ first collection, The Hawk in the Rain. Hughes and his wife Sylvia Plath were as much of a celebrity couple as two poets could be in the early 1960s.
Edward James "Ted" Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) [ 1 ] was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death.
Mar 31, 2016 · Ted Hughes Memorial. Tim Sandles 31 March 2016 Dartmoor Places 3 Comments 13,038 Views. In 1961 Ted Hughes moved to the small village of North Tawton which is just outside the boundaries of the National Park. During the 1970’s he worked on his father-in-law’s farm where he recorded his experiences in a collection of poems called ‘Moortown’.
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