But at its core, her book is more properly an indictment — of both a culture that misreads Plath, and of Plath’s late husband, Ted Hughes, Britain’s longtime poet laureate and, to Van Duyne ...

Which Ted Hughes classic did Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood name their side-project The Smile from? The choice is an unlikely ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted ...

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the ...

The widow of late poet laureate Ted Hughes has opposed plans for a sculpture to celebrate his work in the village where he was born. A community group in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, has proposed ...

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the ...