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 ...

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 ...

A stash of love letters sent from American poet Sylvia Plath to her British husband and poet Ted Hughes is up for auction at Sotheby's. Getty A stash of love letters sent from American poet Sylvia ...

A series of unpublished poems handwritten by Ted Hughes in moments of sorrow following the deaths of his partner, Assia Wevill, and their daughter Shura in 1969 will be offered at a week-long online ...

The British Library added a poet to its list of figures connected to slavery because his relative more than 300 years ago was involved in colonialism. Ted Hughes, a poet laureate and Sylvia Plath’s ...

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...

On July 13, 1957, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes arrived in Cape Cod for their second honeymoon. They had been married for over a year, but their London wedding had been a secret. Now, newly arrived in ...

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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 ...

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LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - A trove of love letters that explore American poet Sylvia Plath's passion for her British husband, fellow poet Ted Hughes, are up for auction at Sotheby's, along with their ...