Hughes, Ted (Edward James)
Hughes, Ted (Edward James) ( 1930 – 98 ),poet, born in west Yorkshire, the son of a carpenter, and educated at Mexborough Grammar School, then at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he met Sylvia Plath , whom he married in 1956 . As a boy he spent much time on shooting and fishing expeditions with his brother, and his obsession with animals and his sense of the beauty and violence of the natural world appear in his first volume, The Hawk in the Rain ( 1957 ). This was followed by Lupercal ( 1960 ), Wodwo ( 1967 , prose and verse), and several books of children's verse. Crow ( 1970 ) is a sequence of poems introducing the central symbol of the crow (partly inspired by a meeting with the American artist Leonard Baskin, who has illustrated much of Hughes's work), which recurs frequently in subsequent volumes. Hughes retells the legends of creation and birth through the dark vision of predatory,...
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