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JONATHAN BATE
tED HUGHES: THE UNAUTHORISED LIFE (2015)
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Ted Hughes (born 1930) was an English poet, children’s author, and translator, who is widely regarded as one of th 20th century;s greatest poets.
He was made Poet Laureate in 1984, holding the post until he died in 2008. In 1956 he married the poet Sylvia Plath. They had two children, spending their stressful life together in the USA and England.
Ted hughes biography jonathan bate
They separated in 1962, and Sylvia took her own life the next year.
Ted Hughes was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was an Irish carpenter who had fought in the First World War. narrowly escaped death when a bullet lodged in the pay book in his breast pocket, and went on to run with his wife a newsagents and tobacconist’s shop.
Ted Hughes’ secondary school teachers encouraged him to write and he became convinced as a schoolchild that his vocation was to be a poet. He won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, and chose to do hi