Ted Hughes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ted Hughes
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1930(1930-08-17)
Age	94
Date Of Death	1998-10-28
Birthplace	Mytholmroyd
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Ted Hughes Biography

Ted Hughes is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom. English Poet- Laureate from England whose most well-known work includes The Hawk in the Rain, Crow, and Birthday Letters. He also translated many works like the novel by Frank Wedekind Spring Awakening and English Poet Laureate whose most famous works include The Hawk in the Rain, Crow, and Birthday Letters. He also translated numerous works, including Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening and Federico Garcia Lorca‘s Blood Wedding.’s Blood Wedding.

The artist and He and artist Leonard Baskin collaborated on The Life and Songs of the Crow. collaborated on The Life and Songs of the Crow.

Hughes was famously married American poetry writer He was famously married to American poet Sylvia Plath, with whom he had two children. Seven years after Plath’s much-publicized suicide, Hughes married Carol Orchard. who was blessed with two kids. 7 years following Plath’s well-known death, Hughes was married Carol Orchard.

Ted Hughes Net Worth

Ted Hughes is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ted Hughes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born in the English farming in the region known as Calder Valley and later studied at Pembroke College.

He was most well-known for his poetry, but He also performed in the theatre and received the most prestigious awards for his children’s literary.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Ted Hughes height 6 ft 6 in Ted weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Ted Hughes Dating?

According to our records, Ted Hughes married to Carol Orchard , Sylvia Plath. As of December 1, 2023, Ted Hughes’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Ted Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ted Hughes celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.

What was Ted Hughes famous for?

Ted Hughes, byname of Edward J. Hughes, (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London), English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.

How old was Sylvia Plath when she met Ted Hughes?

On February 25, 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath stepped into a roomful of people and immediately spotted what she later described in her diary as a “big, dark, hunky boy.” She asked her companions if anyone knew the name of this young man but she received no answer.

How long were Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes married?

Hughes, who died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 68, is best known in the United States for his six years of marriage to Sylvia Plath—perhaps the most closely examined marriage in English literary history. He’s even better known for the end of that marriage, in 1963.

What influenced Ted Hughes poetry?

With its harsh rhythms and diction, influenced by Anglo-Saxon , and its vivid, grandiose imagery, The Hawk in the Rain showed Hughes was prepared to risk greater claims for poetry and to celebrate what the Movement poets thought should be repressed; primitive energy and the power of the unconscious.

What is Ted Hughes best poem?

1. ‘ The Thought-Fox ‘. This poem, from Hughes’s first collection The Hawk in the Rain (1957), explores the writer’s struggle to find inspiration, which is depicted in the poem by the fox.