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Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes 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. In 2008, The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Born 17 August 1930 · Died 28 October 1998 · Q272194
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No death outside my immediate family has left me feeling more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more. He was a tower of tenderness and strength, a great arch under which the least of poetry's children could enter and feel secure. His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. By his death, the veil of poetry is rent and the walls of learning broken.
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2026· 6 entries
The Daily News | Texas' Oldest Newspaper: Out and About: Doreen Hughes
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KY3: SPONSORED The Place: Meet the Hughes Brothers and see why their family show is a Branson favorite!
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University of North Carolina School of the Arts: “Tales from Ovid” by Ted Hughes, adapted by Tim Supple and Simon Reade
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The Hockey News: NHL Rumor Roundup: The Latest On Quinn Hughes And Drake Batherson
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Public attention spiked: 3,140 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,020, with 0 article edits.
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Even Ted Hughes has fallen to the sickly cult of the twee | Martha Gill
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The Guardian: Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold
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The Guardian: This be the verse for the Queen’s jubilee: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth II | Letters
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ted Hughes reflects on the Rio Earth Summit, 1992
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2011· 1 entry
Several previously unpublished letters from Hughes to Craig Raine were published in the literary review Areté
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2010· 3 entries
It was announced that Hughes would be commemorated with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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Publishes a peer-reviewed on-line journal, which can be downloaded by members
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And 2012 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and will continue to stage conferences elsewhere
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2009· 3 entries
“No death outside my immediate family has left me feeling more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more. He was a tower of tenderness and strength, a great arch under which the least of poetry's children could enter and feel secure. His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. By his death, the veil of poetry is rent and the walls of learning broken.”
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The Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry was established with the permission of Carol Hughes
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Published “A safe operating space for humanity” in Nature — cited 9,776 times.
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2008· 2 entries
The British Library acquired a large collection comprising over 220 files containing manuscripts, letters, journals, personal diaries, and correspondence
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The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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2006· 1 entry
Celebrates the life and work of Ted Hughes
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2005· 1 entry
Leading from the Devon village of Belstone to Hughes's memorial stone above the River Taw, on Dartmoor, and in 2006 a Ted Hughes poetry trail was built at Stover Country Park, also in Devon
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,646 times.
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1998· 3 entries
Died 1998-10-28.
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Awarded Order of Merit (1998).
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His Tales from Ovid won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
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1995· 1 entry
The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales, Faber and Faber, London, England
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1994· 1 entry
Won Golden Wreath (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Hughes made a rare television appearance for Channel 4, reading passages from his 1968 novel The Iron Man
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1992· 3 entries
Hughes published Rain Charm for the Duchy, collecting together for the first time his Laureate works, including poems celebrating important royal occasions
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Hughes published Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, a monumental work inspired by Graves's The White Goddess
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Published “Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases.” in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry — cited 8,739 times.
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1989· 2 entries
“The Place Where Sylvia Plath Should Rest in Peace”
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As Hughes was under public attack, a battle raged in the letters' pages of The Guardian and The Independent
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Career landmark: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1984–1998).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Heinemann Award (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Won King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Hughes and his sister Olwyn set up the Rainbow Press
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1967· 1 entry
While living with Wevill, Hughes produced two sculptures of a jaguar, one of which he gave to his brother and one to his sister
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1966· 2 entries
“s illustrations of crows, which became the epic narrative The Life and Songs of the Crow, one of the works for which Hughes is best known. Hughes did not finish the Crow sequence until after his work Cave Birds was published in 1975. In 1967, while living with Wevill, Hughes produced two sculptures of a jaguar, one of which he gave to his brother and one to his sister. Gerald Hughes”
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After Plath's death, he wrote poems to accompany Leonard Baskin's illustrations of crows, which became the epic narrative The Life and Songs of the Crow, one of the works for which Hughes is best known
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1965· 1 entry
Founded with Daniel Weissbort the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, which involved bringing to the attention of the West the work of Czesław Miłosz, who would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Hawthornden Prize (1961).
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Bought the house Court Green, in North Tawton, Devon
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1960).
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1959· 2 entries
Won the Galbraith prize, which brought $5,000
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Staying for a short while back in Heptonstall and then finding a small flat in Primrose Hill, London
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1958· 1 entry
Met artist Leonard Baskin, who would later illustrate many of Hughes's books, including Crow
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1957· 1 entry
So that Plath could take a teaching position at her alma mater, Smith College
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1954· 1 entry
Studied at Pembroke College (1954).
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1951· 2 entries
Hughes initially studied English at Pembroke College under M
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Studied at Pembroke College (1951).
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1946· 1 entry
One of Hughes's early poems, "Wild West", and a short story were published in the grammar school magazine The Don and Dearne
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-08-17.
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