Ted Hughes





Ted Hughes

Author profile


born
in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
August 17, 1930

died
October 28, 1998

gender
male

genre

influences
Shakespeare


About this author

Edward James Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. His most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.

The dialect of Hughes's native West Riding area of Yorkshire set the tone of his verse. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of particular interest, a concern that was reflected in a number of his poems. In 1956 he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. The couple made a visit to the United States in 1957, the year that his first volume of verse, The Hawk in the Rain , was published. Other works soon followed.

Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for nearly three years fol...more


Average rating: 4.11 · 27,802 ratings · 1,074 reviews · 119 distinct works · Similar authors
Birthday Letters
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 3,510 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions
The Iron Man
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,947 ratings — published 1968 — 34 editions
Crow
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions
Collected Poems
by
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Selected Poems 1957-1994
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
Letters of Ted Hughes
by
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
The Hawk in the Rain
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
Ted Hughes: Poems Selected ...
by
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
The Iron Woman
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
Gaudete
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 66 ratings3 editions
More books by Ted Hughes…
The Iron Wolf What is the Truth? A March Calf The Thought-Fox
Animal Poems (4 books)
by
3.9565217391304346 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

“What happens in the heart, simply happens”
Ted Hughes

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”
Ted Hughes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Meggie & Mo's...: * Book List 3 114 29. September, 23:56 Uhr  
Challenge: 50 Books: Ben's Books for 2009 45 249 03. Juni, 08:50 Uhr  
UK Book Club: Zoe's List 46 86 27. September, 02:15 Uhr  
UK Book Club: Em's List 174 201 26. Dezember, 14:48 Uhr  
Glens Falls (NY) ...: What are U reading these days? (PART SIX) (2010) 1059 221 31. Dezember, 20:12 Uhr  
Glens Falls (NY) ...: Have you seen any good movies lately? (Part THREE - 2010) 1349 130 31. Dezember, 20:52 Uhr  
UK Book Club: Zoe's List 20 98 06. Januar, 05:33 Uhr  
The Seasonal Read...: Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts) 2596 733 28. Februar, 21:05 Uhr