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Ted Hughes
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Standard Name: Hughes, Ted
Connections
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Anthologization | Kathleen Nott | In 1965 KN
was included in a 24-page poetry anthology, Moments of Truth, published by Roy Lewis
at the Keepsake Press
at Richmond in Surrey, along with nineteen other poets including Thom Gunn |
Anthologization | Elaine Feinstein | EF
was elated when she was invited by Faber and Faber
to contribute to Poetry: introduction 1, 1969 (at the instigation, she said, of Ted Hughes
). Her elation was short-lived since this news... |
Anthologization | Seamus Heaney | SH
issued from Faber
his translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (commissioned for the NortonAnthology of English Literature), which he dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 5035 (1 October 1999): 9 Beowulf. Translator Heaney, Seamus, Faber, 1999. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Tennant | ET
began a relationship with Michael Dempsey
that lasted during the 1970s. This was followed by another long-term partnership, with writer Tim Owens
, which proved to be her final one. Montague-Smith, Patrick, editor. Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett’s Peerage and Gale Research, 1976–2024, http://HSS Ref CS 420 D28. Haffenden, John, and Emma Tennant. “John Haffenden talks to Emma Tennant”. The Literary Review, Vol. 66 , Dec. 1983, pp. 37-41. 37 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | He came back into her adult life in September 1953, and finally the Great Marriage Problem seemed settled. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 279 Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 279 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes
, a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | Ted Hughes
continued throughout the rest of his life to be frequently unfaithful to his primary relationship, which has in turn made difficulties for researchers. Carol Hughes
, his widow, withdrew authorization from |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | SP
married Ted Hughes
at the Church of St George the Martyr in Bloomsbury, London, on James Joyce
's Bloomsday. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1987. 134 Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. Seabury Press, 1976. 189 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | SP
's daughter, Frieda Rebecca
, was born at home in the flat which she and Ted Hughes
occupied in London. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. xiii, 132 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | SP
's son, Nicholas Farrar Hughes
, was born at home in Plath's and Hughes
's house, Court Green in Devon, and named after the seventeenth-century Nicholas Ferrar
, whom Ted Hughes claimed as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | During a visit to SP
by her mother
, Ted Hughes
divided his time between Devon and London, between Sylvia and Assia
. He and Plath had all but separated. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. 160-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | SP
saw a lawyer about suing Ted Hughes
for divorce. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. 165 |
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 | 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 |
Timeline
13 September 1956: Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The...
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13 September 1956
Ted Hughes
published his poetry volume The Hawk in the Rain.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 September 2010
Late August 1968: Two poets, John Moat and John Fairfax, launched...
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Late August 1968
Two poets, John Moat
and John Fairfax
, launched the Arvon Foundation
with a poetry course at Beaford Arts Centre
(in a Victorian house in rural north Devon). Ted Hughes
was guest reader on...
1980: Ted Hughes published Crow, a poetry volume...
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1980
Ted Hughes
published Crow, a poetry volume which became, by poetry standards, a bestseller.
Mullan, John. “Style council”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, pp. Review 34 - 5.
Review 25
By late October 1989: Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary,...
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By late October 1989
Ted Hughes
published his Moortown Diary, which Tom Paulin
has called his masterpiece.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. “The exclusive eye”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4516, 20 Oct. 1989, p. 1148.
1148
1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...
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1998-9
In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes
was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney
second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy
third...
18 October 1998: Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes...
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18 October 1998
Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
died, the Sunday Times carried his poem entitled The Offers, which he had excluded from both his books published this year, Birthday Letters (his last major collection)...
28 October 1998: Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate and widower of...
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28 October 1998
Ted Hughes
, Poet Laureate and widower of Sylvia Plath
, died.
The Ted Hughes Homepage. 26 May 2011, http://web.archive.org/web/20091028202301/http://www.zeta.org.au/~annskea/THHome.htm.
6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...
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6 October 2010
A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes
, Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC
's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce
.
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian, 6 Oct. 2010.
Texts
Plath, Sylvia. Collected Poems. Editor Hughes, Ted, Faber and Faber, 1981.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Harper and Row, 1979, pp. 1-9.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, pp. 13-17.
Plath, Sylvia. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. Editor Hughes, Ted, Harper and Row, 1979.
Hughes, Ted. Letters of Ted Hughes. Editor Reid, Christopher, Faber and Faber, 2007.
Plath, Sylvia. Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems. Editor Hughes, Ted, Faber and Faber.
Plath, Sylvia. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Editors Hughes, Ted and Frances McCullough, Dial.
Heaney, Seamus, and Ted Hughes, editors. The Rattle Bag. Faber, 1982.
Heaney, Seamus, and Ted Hughes, editors. The School Bag. Faber, 1997.