Literature

Ted Hughes

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Full NameEdward James Hughes
Date of Birth17 August 1930
Place of BirthMytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England
Date of Death28 October 1998
Place of DeathLondon, England
Spouses– Sylvia Plath (m. 1956; died 1963) – Carol Orchard (m. 1970)
Domestic Partner(s)Assia Wevill (1962–1969)
Children– Frieda Hughes – Nicholas Hughes – Alexandra Wevill
Alma MaterPembroke College, Cambridge
OccupationPoet, playwright, writer
Notable Works– The Thought Fox – The Rain Horse – Poetry in Making – Birthday Letters – Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow – Lupercal – Tales from Ovid – The Iron Man – The Iron Woman
Awards– Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1984–1998) – Order of Merit (1998) – Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (1974) – Somerset Maugham Award (1957)

Ted Hughes Books

TitleYear
The Iron Man1968
Birthday Letters1998
Crow1970
Collected Animal Poems Vol 4: The Thought Fox1995
Ted Hughes Poetry1996
The Hawk in the Rain1957
Wodwo1967
The Iron Woman1993
Lupercal1960
Remains of Elmet1979
Tales from Ovid1997
Poems1971
Poetry in the making1967
Letters of Ted Hughes
Moortown Diary1979
Cave birds1978
Cartas de Cumpleanos
The Iron Man: Chris Mould Illustrated Edition
Elmet1994
Gaudete1977
Modern Poetry1969
Wolfwatching1982
New selected poems, 1957-19941982
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being1992
Collected poems
Selected Poems1983
How the whale became, and other stories1963
Season songs1975
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Poetry is1967
A March Calf1995
Winter Pollen1994
Collected Poems for Children
Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems
Poems for Children2011
River: Poems by Ted Hughes1983
Meet my folks!1961
My Brother Bert
The mermaid’s purse
The Iron Wolf1995
Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid1997
Orghast1971
What is the truth?1984
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems
The martyrdom of Bishop Farrar1970
Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders1986
All Around the Year1979

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