Ted Hughes is consistently described as one of the twentieth century’s greatest English poets. [26] Hughes's biographers note that Plath did not relate her history of depression and suicide attempts to him until much later. His two siblings were Gerald the eldest followed by Olwyn. He began cultivating a small farm near Winkleigh, Devon called Moortown, a name which became embedded in the title of one of his poetry collections. Hughes's first collection, The Hawk in the Rain (1957), attracted considerable critical acclaim. At the party, he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her … A collection of his correspondence, edited by Christopher Reid, was released in 2007 as Letters of Ted Hughes. [28] During this time, he wrote the poems that would be published in Wodwo (1967) and Recklings (1966). [63] Animals serve as a metaphor for his view on life: animals live out a struggle for the survival of the fittest in the same way that humans strive for ascendancy and success. Beset by depression made worse by her husband's affair and with a history of suicide attempts, Plath took her own life on 11 February 1963, although it is unclear whether she meant to ultimately succeed. The Spoken Word. A collection of animal poems for children had been published by Faber earlier that year, What is the Truth?, illustrated by R. J. Lloyd. In 2008, the British Library acquired a large collection comprising over 220 files containing manuscripts, letters, journals, personal diaries and correspondence. These poems make reference to Plath's suicide, but none addresses directly the circumstances of her death. Famous Poet 4. There was a great mutual attraction but they did not meet again for another month, when Plath was passing through London on her way to Paris. The resulting opera, from which significant portions of his text were cut, premiered in 1974. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Most of the more recent generatio… In addition to his own poetry, Hughes wrote a number of translations of European plays, mainly classical ones. I read the 566 pages in less than a week and was riveted by Bates's brilliant account of Hughes's poetry in relation to his life. It enters the dark hole of the head. [7] It was published in New Statesman on National Poetry Day, October 2010. The five surviving programmes, ‘Capturing Animals’, ‘Moon Creatures’, ‘Learning to Think’, ‘Writing about Landscape’ and ‘Meet my Folks!’ are available on the BBC British Library CD: "Ted Hughes: Poetry in the Making". [83], The Elmet Trust, founded in 2006, celebrates the life and work of Ted Hughes. [78] [10] He learnt many of the plays by heart and memorised great quantities of W. B. Yeats's poetry. [74] Motion paid tribute to Hughes as "one of the two great poets of the last half of the last century" (the other being Philip Larkin). Two eyes serve a movement, that now Between trees, and warily a lame In a 1971 interview with The London Magazine, Hughes cited his main influences as including Blake, Donne, Hopkins and Eliot. [18] His two years of national service (1949–51) passed comparatively easily. In the 1959, he graduated with a Masters degree from Cambridge. [80], In 2009, the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry was established with the permission of Carol Hughes. [20] His first published poetry appeared in Chequer. In the 1954, he graduated from Pembroke College of the Cambridge University. Hughes's wife, Helen Hughes, has been a city councillor in Saskatoon and Victoria. Till day rose; then under an orange sky His poems have a dark energy and the rhythms and sounds of Old English, often to do with the natural world, with animals and the landscape and with myths and legends. [51], Carol Hughes announced in January 2013 that she would write a memoir of their marriage. Their deaths led to claims that Hughes had been abusive to both Plath and Wevill. [7], Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to William Henry (1894–1981) and Edith (Farrar) Hughes (1898–1969),[8] and raised among the local farms of the Calder Valley and on the Pennine moorland. In 1992 Hughes published Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, a monumental work inspired by Graves's The White Goddess. In 1984 Hughes was appointed Britain’s poet laureate. It later became the basis of Pete Townshend's rock opera of the same name, and of the animated film The Iron Giant. When he was seven years old his family moved to the small town of Mexborough in South Yorkshire, and the landscape of the moors of that area informed his poetry throughout his life. In 1966, 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. [67], On 28 April 2011, a memorial plaque for Hughes was unveiled at North Tawton by his widow Carol Hughes. He was best known for overseeing prominent investigations in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, one of which led to the resignation of Premier Bill Vander Zalm. The work favoured hard-hitting trochees and spondees reminiscent of middle English – a style he used throughout his career – over the more genteel latinate sounds. In 1970, he and his sister, Olwyn (26 August 1928 – 3 January 2016),[45] set up the Rainbow Press, which published sixteen titles between 1971 and 1981, comprising poems by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Ruth Fainlight, Thom Gunn and Seamus Heaney, printed by Daedalus Press, Rampant Lions Press and the John Roberts Press. He also featured in the 1994 documentary Seven Crows A Secret. [11], In 1951, Hughes initially studied English at Pembroke College under M.J.C. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in the Yorkshire town of Mytholmroyd in England. It is very interesting and would cause a minor sensation" (4 April 1997). In August 1970, Hughes married Carol Orchard, a nurse, and they remained together until his death. Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in December 1984, following Sir John Betjeman. [58] Also in 1992, Hughes published Rain Charm for the Duchy, collecting together for the first time his Laureate works, including poems celebrating important royal occasions. The Trust looks after Hughes's birthplace in Mytholmroyd, which is available as a holiday let and writer's retreat. The double is a force of nature who organises the women of the village into a "love coven" in order that he may father a new messiah. The free event included a two-hour ramble through Mexborough following the route of young Hughes's paper round. [11] He began to seriously explore myth and esoteric practices within as shamanism, Buddhism and alchemy, perceiving that imagination could heal dualistic splits in the human psyche and poetry was the language of the work. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. His father was an Irish descendent while his mother was a descent of William de Ferrières. Ted Hughes was born Edward James Hughes in a small Yorkshire town on the edge of the moors, only a few miles from where the famous Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) had lived. Sadly, Ted Hughes is often known primarily as Sylvia Plath's husband. By his death, the veil of poetry is rent and the walls of learning broken. [26] The first prize was publication by Harper, garnering Hughes widespread critical acclaim with the book's release in September 1957, and resulting in him winning a Somerset Maugham Award. [39] In 1989, with Hughes under public attack, a battle raged in the letters pages of The Guardian and The Independent. The Fantasia about Sylvia Plath is more needed than the facts. The book began as a series of ‘talks’ that Hughes wrote, and read, for the BBC Schools Broadcasting radio series "Listening and Writing". As the executor of her estate, Hughes also edited and published several volumes of her work in the period 1965–98, but he was accused of censoring her writings after he revealed that he had destroyed several journals that she had written before her suicide. In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Ted Hughes was born on August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England as Edward James Hughes. A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf; He was born on 17th August 1930 in Mytholmrod, West Riding of Yorkshire and grew up in Mexborough. He was married to Carol Orchard and Sylvia … [5] Some admirers of Plath and critics blamed him for her death after the revelation of letters written by Plath, which mention that Hughes had beaten her two days before she had a miscarriage in 1961, and that he also told Plath he wished that she were dead. Facts about Ted Hughes 5: the birthplace and birth date. They were both writing, Hughes working on programmes for the BBC as well as producing essays, articles, reviews and talks. Within its opus he created a cosmology of the totemic Crow who was simultaneously God, Nature and Hughes' alter ego. Edward "Ted" Hughes (born 1876 in Ruabon, Denbighshire Wales) was a professional footballer who played for clubs including Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Clyde and represented Wales on 14 occasions. The Jaguar 3. "The Place Where Sylvia Plath Should Rest in Peace". 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The publication of Crow shaped Hughes' poetic career as distinct from other forms of English Nature Poetry. The programme included contributions from poets Simon Armitage and Ruth Fainlight, broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, biographers Elaine Feinstein and Jonathan Bate, activist Robin Morgan, critic Al Alvarez, publicist Jill Barber, friend Ehor Boyanowsky, patron Elizabeth Sigmund, friend Daniel Huws, Hughes's US editor Frances McCullough and younger cousin Vicky Watling. [4], Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her death by suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. He attended the secondary school of Mexborough, where teachers encouraged his aspiration for writing. [15] Hughes noted, "my first six years shaped everything. "[31][32] Some people argued that Hughes had driven Plath to suicide. In 2011, several previously unpublished letters from Hughes to Craig Raine were published in the literary review Areté. His mother was Edith Hughes, while his father was William Henry. It was later known that Hughes was second choice for the appointment. [49], Hughes was appointed a member of the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II just before he died. He was a writer and actor, known for The Iron Giant (1999), Beauty and the Beast (1982) and Jackanory Playhouse (1972). Wevill also killed her child, Alexandra Tatiana Elise (nicknamed Shura), the four-year-old daughter of Hughes, born on 3 March 1965. His works also include an adaptation of Seneca’s Oedipus (1968), nonfiction (Winter Pollen, 1994), and translations. Short Biography. Hughes's sister Olwyn Marguerite Hughes (1928–2016) was two years older and his brother Gerald (1920–2016) was ten years older. His most significant work is perhaps Crow (1970), which whilst it has been widely praised also divided critics, combining an apocalyptic, bitter, cynical and surreal view of the universe with what sometimes appeared simple, childlike verse. Ted Hughes Ted Hughes (born 1930) was an eminent English poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation starting in the late 1950s. [57] The book, considered Hughes's key work of prose, had a mixed reception "divided between those who considered it an important and original appreciation of Shakespeare’s complete works, whilst others dismissed it as a lengthy and idiosyncratic appreciation of Shakespeare refracted by Hughes’s personal belief system". [72][73] Poet Seamus Heaney and actress Juliet Stevenson gave readings at the ceremony, which was also attended by Hughes's widow Carol and daughter Frieda, and by the poets Simon Armitage, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion and Michael Morpurgo. He continued to live at the house in Devon, until suffering a fatal heart attack on 28 October 1998 while undergoing hospital treatment for colon cancer in Southwark, London. His earliest poem "The Thought Fox", and earliest story "The Rain Horse" were recollections of the area. His funeral was held on 3 November 1998, at North Tawton church, and he was cremated in Exeter. [44] At Lumb Bridge near Pecket Well, Calderdale is a plaque, installed by The Elmet Trust, commemorating Hughes's poem "Six Young Men", which was inspired by an old photograph of six young men taken at that spot. In his foreword to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, he defends his actions as a consideration for the couple's young children. His birthplace was in a large village named Mytholmroyd located in West Riding in Yorkshire. [10] One of his mother's ancestors had founded the religious community at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire. The epilogue consists of a series of lyrics spoken by the restored priest in praise of a nature goddess, inspired by Robert Graves's White Goddess. Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Ted Hughes Ted Hughes was an English poet and a prolific writer of children’s books. Born August 17th, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, his family moved to Mexborough when he was seven to run a newspaper and tobacco shop. A play based on Hughes’s original libretto was staged in 2009. Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to William Henry (1894–1981) and Edith (Farrar) Hughes (1898–1969), and raised among the local farms of the Calder Valley and on the Pennine moorland. Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. In the summer of 1962, Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill who had been subletting the Primrose Hill flat with her husband. [10] In Poetry in Making he recalled that he was fascinated by animals, collecting and drawing toy lead creatures. His father, William, was a joiner who had fought in the First World War; his mother, Edith was a tailor who loved walking, and bought Hughes a small second-hand library of poetry after he was praised by his English teacher. [27] Plath typed up Hughes's manuscript for his collection Hawk In The Rain which went on to win a poetry competition run by the Poetry centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York. Winds stampeding the fields under the window [41][42][43] Hughes did not finish the Crow sequence until the work Cave Birds was published in 1975.[11]. When Hughes was seven, his family moved to Mexborough, South Yorkshire. Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Participants visited some of the important locations which influenced the poet, with the trail beginning at Hughes's former home, which is now a furniture shop. 1. [3] He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. [48], In early 1994, Hughes became increasingly alarmed by the decline of fish in rivers local to his Devonshire home. He did not excel as a scholar. This concern inspired him to become one of the original trustees of the Westcountry Rivers Trust, a charity set up to restore rivers through catchment-scale management and a close relationship with local landowners and riparian owners. [63], The West Riding dialect of Hughes's childhood remained a staple of his poetry, his lexicon lending a texture that is concrete, terse, emphatic, economical yet powerful. He acted as retriever when his elder brother gamekeeper shot magpies, owls, rats and curlews, growing up surrounded by the harsh realities of working farms in the valleys and on the moors. Corrections? Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. A man of many interests, his work reflects his affinity for mythology, astrology, animals and nature, and classic literature. He wrote frequently of the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Jonathan Bates's excellent Biography of Ted Hughes is, surprisingly, a page-turner. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more. In his Birthday Letters (1998), he addressed his relationship with Plath after decades of silence. [54] The letters were sent to Dr. Ruth Barnhouse (then Dr. Ruth Beuscher).[54]. Hughes served in this position until his death in 1998. Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998)[1] was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Hughes was mentored by his sister Olwyn, who was well versed in poetry, and another teacher, John Fisher. [11], On 23 March 1969, six years after Plath's suicide by asphyxiation from a gas stove, Assia Wevill died by suicide in the same way. Hughes wrote many books for children, notably The Iron Man (1968; also published as The Iron Giant; film 1999). The couple moved to the United States in 1957, the year that his first volume of verse, The Hawk in the Rain, was published. The rest is posthumous. [11], Hughes attended Mexborough Grammar School, where a succession of teachers encouraged him to write, and develop his interest in poetry. In 1959 he won the Galbraith prize, which brought $5,000. He mentioned also Schopenhauer, Robert Graves's book The White Goddess and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. [11][17] Poet Harold Massingham also attended this school and was also mentored by Fisher. [11], Hughes and Plath had two children, Frieda Rebecca (b. [11], During the same year, Hughes won an open exhibition in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but chose to do his national service first. British Library. Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 following the death of John Betjeman. Sets neat prints into the snow Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for nearly three years following Plath’s suicide in 1963 (the couple had separated the previous year), but thereafter he published prolifically, with volumes of poetry such as Wodwo (1967), Crow (1970), Wolfwatching (1989), and New Selected Poems, 1957–1994 (1995). [11] Most of the more recent generations of his family had worked in the clothing and milling industries in the area. In 1958, they met Leonard Baskin, who would later illustrate many of Hughes's books, including Crow. He was a writer and actor, known for The Iron Giant(1999), Beauty and the Beast(1982) and Jackanory Playhouse(1972). Ted Hughes, byname of Edward J. Hughes, (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London), English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines. First published in 1968, Ted Hughes's classic tale is a powerful tribute to peace on earth - and in all the universe. After serving as in the Royal Air Force, Hughes attended Cambridge, where he studied archeology and anthropology, taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. [30] He claimed to have destroyed the final volume of Plath's journal, detailing their last few months together. Hughes, Ted. A close friend at the time, John Wholly, took Hughes to the Crookhill estate above Conisbrough where the boys spent great swathes of time. The poem written by Ted Hughes about the night his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, died was inspired by a row the couple had about her leaving the country, according to a biography. [71] On 6 December 2011, a slab of Kirkstone green slate was ceremonially placed at the foot of the memorial commemorating T. S. He later became President of the charity Farms for City Children, established by his friend Michael Morpurgo in Iddesleigh. Growing up in the valleys and moors of Yorkshire, he developed an early fascination with animals. He died on October 28, 1998 in Devon, England. Career. "Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes's torment over death of Sylvia Plath". [59], In 1998, his Tales from Ovid won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award. And again now, and now, and now This poem was included in Ted Hughes' prize-winning, first collection The Hawk in the Rain (1957).. The Thought-Fox 2. In The Guardian on 20 April 1989, Hughes wrote the article "The Place Where Sylvia Plath Should Rest in Peace": In the years soon after [Plath's] death, when scholars approached me, I tried to take their apparently serious concern for the truth about Sylvia Plath seriously. Ted Hughes was an English poet who was the Poet Laureate of England from 1984 until his death. This house has been far out at sea all night, Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The life is invoked in order to illuminate the work; the biographical impulse must be at one with the literary-critical.” But these fine words—are just fine words. Its website also publishes news, and has articles on all Hughes's major works for free access. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes. In Birthday Letters, his last collection, Hughes broke his silence on Plath, detailing aspects of their life together and his own behaviour at the time. [20] A poem, "The little boys and the seasons", written during this time, was published in Granta, under the pseudonym Daniel Hearing. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Hughes, Academy of American Poets - Biography of Ted Hughes, Poetry Foundation - Biography of Ted Hughes, The Poetry Archive - Biography of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). Hughes felt encouraged and supported by Hodgart's supervision, but attended few lectures and wrote no more poetry at this time, feeling stifled by literary academia and the "terrible, suffocating, maternal octopus" of literary tradition. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The poet Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, in 1930. Updates? The Ted Hughes Society, founded in 2010, publishes a peer-reviewed on-line journal, which can be downloaded by members. Ted Hughes, byname of Edward J. Hughes, (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London), English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal … Heather Clark fuses new discoveries and eye-opening analysis in an inspiring biography, "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath." Eliot. "[50], Nicholas Hughes, the son of Hughes and Plath, committed suicide in his home in Alaska on 16 March 2009 after suffering from depression. That year they each had poems published in The Nation, Poetry and The Atlantic. [33][34][35] Plath's gravestone in Heptonstall was repeatedly vandalized by those aggrieved that "Hughes" is written on the stone and attempted to chisel it off, leaving only the name "Sylvia Plath. Plath first met poet Ted Hughes on February 25, 1956, at a party in Cambridge, England. [11][19] He wrote, "I might say, that I had as much talent for Leavis-style dismantling of texts as anyone else, I even had a special bent for it, nearly a sadistic streak there, but it seemed to me not only a foolish game, but deeply destructive of myself. He was named poet laureate in 1985. The photograph, taken just before the First World War, was of six young men who were all soon to lose their lives in the war. Following Plath's suicide, he wrote two poems "The Howling of Wolves" and "Song of a Rat" and then did not write poetry again for three years. Under a cloud of his affair, Hughes and Plath separated in the autumn of 1962 and she set up life in a new flat with the children. Of a body that is bold to come His childhood was quiet and dominately rural. A selection of his poems concerning animal life was published as A Ted Hughes Bestiary (2014). She visited him again on her return three weeks later. It tells the story of the vicar of an English village who is carried off by elemental spirits, and replaced in the village by his enantiodromic double, a changeling, fashioned from a log, who nevertheless has the same memories as the original vicar. Floundering black astride and blinding wet Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). He worked at London Zoo as a washer-upper,[22] a post that offered plentiful opportunities to observe animals at close quarters. He edited many collections of poetry, such as The Rattle Bag (1982, with Seamus Heaney). Across clearings, an eye, [53], In 2017, it was revealed that letters written by Plath between 18 February 1960 and 4 February 1963 outline how Hughes beat Plath two days before she had a miscarriage in 1961, and that Hughes told Plath he wished that she was dead. Other works soon followed, including the highly praised Lupercal (1960) and Selected Poems (1962, with Thom Gunn, a poet whose work is frequently associated with Hughes’s as marking a new turn in English verse). The first 6 years of life become crucial in the biography of Ted Hughes. His Tales from Ovid (1997) contains a selection of free verse translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Crow was edited several times across Hughes' career. [citation needed]. ", In October 2015, the BBC Two major documentary Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death examined Hughes's life and work. He narrowly escaped being killed when a bullet lodged in a pay book in his breast pocket. [15] During his time in Mexborough, he explored Manor Farm at Old Denaby, which he said he would come to know "better than any place on earth". Ted Hughes was born on August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England as Edward James Hughes. Ted had an elder brother Gerald and a sister Alvina. 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