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Ted Hughes
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English poet and children's writer (1930-1998)
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Ted Hughes (1930–1998) was a male poet from the United Kingdom. His professional work period began in 1948. He is associated with genres including aor, blue-eyed soul, blues rock, deep purple family, and funk. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with poetry, spoken word, england, poet, and northern.
His literary output includes 437 works according to Open Library, with notable titles such as *A choice of Shakespeare's verse*, *Flowers and Insects*, *Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders*, *Selected poems, 1957-1967*, *The Poetry of Cats*, and *A play, a story, a poem and a seed*. Crossref lists five of his works. Wikiquote features several of his lines, including "The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel."
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- 1998
- Works
- 437
Top works
- A choice of Shakespeare's verse
- Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders
- Selected poems, 1957-1967
- The Poetry of Cats
- A play, a story, a poem and a seed
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1951-08-21
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,492
- Total plays
- 19,212
Tags
Edward James Hughes, known as Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, transcriber and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Hughes was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until her death. She committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial to some feminists and (particularly) American admirers of
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,615x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,224x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Cold, delicately as the dark snow,A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snow.”
- “With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,It enters the dark hole of the head.The window is starless still; the clock ticks,The page is printed.”
- “This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”
- “The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.Over the cage floor the horizons come.”
- “Pike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.”
- “The jaws' hooked clamp and fangsNot to be changed at this date;A life subdued to its instrument.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
~39 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008, The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Hughes married fellow poet, American Sylvia Plath, in 1956. They lived together in the United States and then in England, in a tumultuous relationship. They had two children before separating in 1962. Plath ended her life in 1963.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ted Hughes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.