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Biography of Ted HughesName: Ted HughesBirth Date: August 17, 1930 Death Date: October 28, 1998 Place of Birth: Mytholmroyd, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: poet Ted Hughes Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an eminent English poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation starting in the late 1950s. He was named poet laureate in 1985.Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in the Yorkshire town of Mytholmroyd in England. His home backed onto a canal, while close by was the main road from the Yorkshire woolen towns to the cotton centers of Lancashire over the Pennine hills. This landscape was indelibly to shape his future poetry as he struggled to create a usable language that could accommodate poetry and literature to the demands of an increasingly post-literate society.In the 1950s Hughes went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he started to "read" English but changed to anthropology as he felt that the academic study of English literature conflicted with his search for poetic creativity. It was at Cambridge in 1956 that he met the American poet Sylvia Plath whom he later …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…cancer for nearly 18 months, Hughes died at his home in North Tawton, England, on October 28, 1998. Just prior to his death, Hughes was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize for Birthday Letters. He also received the prestigious Order of Merit in Britain, becoming one of only 24 holders of the award. Further Reading A superb biography is Elaine Feinstein, Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (2001). Additional information on Ted Hughes can be found in Keith Sagar, The Art of Ted Hughes (Cambridge, 1975); Margaret D. Uroff, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1979); Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts, Ted Hughes: A Critical Study (London, 1981); Keith Sagar (editor), The Achievement of Ted Hughes (Manchester University Press, 1983); David Porter, "Ted Hughes" in The American Poetry Review (1971); Anthony Libby, "God's Lioness and the Priest of Sycorax: Plath and Hughes" in Contemporary Literature (1974); and Michael Wood, "We All Hate Home: English Poetry since World War II" in Contemporary Literature (1977). |