Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes, OM referred to normally as Ted Hughes (August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. He is considered by some to be one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was Poet Laureate in England from 1984 until his death. He was also famously married from 1956?63 to the American poetess Sylvia Plath and was believed by many feminists to have helped to cause Plath's suicide (and also his lover Assia Wevill's suicide). He explored his complex relationship with Plath in his last book of poems, Birthday Letters (1998).

Bibliography

Poetry

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• (1957) The Hawk in the Rain
• (1960) Lupercal
• (1967) Wodwo
• (1968) The Iron Man
• (1970) Crow
• (1977) Gaudete
• (1979) Moortown Diary
• (1979) Remains of Elmet (with photographs by Fay Godwin)
• (1986) Flowers and Insects
• (1989) Wolfwatching
• (1992) Rain-charm for the Duchy
• (1994) New Selected Poems 1957-1994
• (1997) Tales from Ovid
• (1998) Birthday Letters

Anthologies edited by Hughes

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• Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Selected Verse of Shakespeare
• A Choice of Coleridge's Verse
• Seneca's Oedipus
• Spring Awakening by Wedekind (translation)
• Phedre by Racine (translation)
• The Rattle Bag (edited with Seamus Heaney)
• The School Bag (edited with Seamus Heaney)

Prose

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• A Dancer to God
• Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
• Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose
• Difficulties of a Bridegroom
• Poetry in the Making

Books for Children

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• How the Whale Became
• Meet my Folks!
• The Earth Owl and Other Moon-people
• Nessie the Mannerless Monster
• The Coming of the Kings
• The Iron Man
• Moon Whales
• Season Songs
• Under the North Star
• Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
• Tales of the Early World
• The Iron Woman
• The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales
• Collected Animal Poems: Vols. 1-4
• Shaggy and Spotty