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The last four stanzas of "The Thought Fox" from The Hawk in the Rain, 1957 Hughes and Plath were married on 16 June 1956, at St George the Martyr, Holborn, four months after they had first met. They chose the date, Bloomsday, in honour of Irish writer James Joyce. Plath's mother was the only wedding guest. The couple spent most of their honeymoon at Benidorm, in Alicante on Spain's Costa ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Ted Hughes (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London) was an English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of ...
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Oct 29, 1998 · Thursday, October 29, 1998 Published at 12:14 GMT EntertainmentPoet Ted Hughes dies Ted Hughes: Kept his illness a secret One of Britain's most admired literary figures, the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has died aged 68. He was acclaimed for the intense images he evoked of the English countryside and the savagery of the animal world. Poet Al ...
Oct 30, 1998 · British poet laureate Ted Hughes, whose failed marriage to the tortured American poet Sylvia Plath earned him the wrath of many feminists but inspired some of his best writing, has died of cancer ...
Oct 30, 1998 · Ted Hughes, British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath as for his powerful, evocative poetry, dies at 68; Hughes, Britain's poet laureate, has ...
Oct 28, 2023 · Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times. The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal ...
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Oct 11, 2015 · Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath, who famously committed suicide following his affair with Assia Wevill. Just six years later, Wevill took her own life, and also the life of ...
