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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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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Poet Ted Hughes’ long-lost poem ‘Last Letter’ will be published Thursday ...

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 ...

Jamie James is a critic and novelist. Ted HUGHES was an inexorable, outsized presence in poetry on both sides of the Atlantic until his death in 1998, but few readers could have realized until now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In March 1963, a month after the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes wrote an anguished letter to her mother, Aurelia. “I don’t ever want to be forgiven,” he wrote about his role ...

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