There’s something apt about celebrating the anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death with the republication of Lupercal, which includes such Hughes classics as “Pike” and “Hawk Roosting”. Today, more than ...

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The trip proved to be another turning point in Ted’s life. As on many occasions when he was travelling, he kept a more systematic journal than usual. After a stupefying train journey with watery food ...

When Hughes’s papers became available through the 2000s, Bate, a professor of English at Oxford, began writing a “literary life”. He wanted to study the genesis of Hughes’s ­remarkable poetry, ...

Two years ago, Calderdale planners approved Royd Regeneration’s plans for a statue recognising poet Ted Hughes’ village of birth, Mytholmroyd. But the application sparked some controversy when an ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It may seem like a long 13 years after his death that Ted Hughes was honored in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey, but compared with other literary greats like Shakespeare and ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...