He, the brother of Gerald Hughes and husband of Sylvia Plath, fathered Frieda Hughes and. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.British poet Ted Hughes with full name Edward James Hughes served as poet laureate from 1984 to 1998 people note his work for its symbolism, passion, and dark natural imagery. In 1984 Hughes was appointed Britain’s poet laureate. A selection of his poems concerning animal life was published as A Ted Hughes Bestiary (2014).
A collection of his correspondence, edited by Christopher Reid, was released in 2007 as Letters of Ted Hughes. He edited many collections of poetry, such as The Rattle Bag (1982, with Seamus Heaney). His works also include an adaptation of Seneca’s Oedipus (1968), nonfiction ( Winter Pollen, 1994), and translations. A play based on Hughes’s original libretto was staged in 2009. The resulting opera, from which significant portions of his text were cut, premiered in 1974. He translated Georges Schehadé’s play The Story of Vasco from the original French and shaped it into a libretto. Remains of Elmet (1979), in which he recalled the world of his childhood, is one of many publications he created in collaboration with photographers and artists. Hughes wrote many books for children, notably The Iron Man (1968 also published as The Iron Giant film 1999).
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