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Famous quotes by Ted Hughes:

"Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea."

"What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan."

"They think I should give them my mother's words/To fill the mouth of their monster/Their Sylvia Suicide Doll."

"I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it."

"Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse."

"Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all."

"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

"I think the real fascination of fishing to me is certainly more than just fish. It's something to do with the whole world... of your reaction to, your response to water and things living in water, the fascination of flowing water and living things coming up out of it - to grab at you and be grabbed."

"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

"Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea."

"What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan."

"They think I should give them my mother's words/To fill the mouth of their monster/Their Sylvia Suicide Doll."

"I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it."

"Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse."

"Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all."

"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

"I think the real fascination of fishing to me is certainly more than just fish. It's something to do with the whole world... of your reaction to, your response to water and things living in water, the fascination of flowing water and living things coming up out of it - to grab at you and be grabbed."

"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

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Ted Hughes 'On Thinking'

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Duration: 8:43
Updated: 17 Dec 2012

A monologue by poet Ted Hughes on the experience and forms of thought. Origin unknown - if you know more about the piece, please leave a note in the comments.

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A Tribute To The Poet Ted Hughes

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Duration: 8:42
Updated: 25 Nov 2012

A tribute to the late Poet Laureate who died in 1998. It contains poetry readings by Ted as well as interviews with him.

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Ted Hughes - A Dream - The Thought-Fox

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Duration: 3:09
Updated: 09 Dec 2012

Ted Hughes speaks about his dream of a fox and reads his poem The Thought-Fox The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes (1930-1998) I imagine this midnight moment's forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock's loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness: Cold, delicately as the dark snow A fox's nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now, and now Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business Till, 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.

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Ted Hughes reads from "Crow"

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Duration: 9:30
Updated: 05 Dec 2012

1. Two Legends 2. A Horrible Religious Error 3. The Black Beast 4. Crow's Vanity 5. The Smile 6. How Water Began To Play 7. Littleblood Published 1970, recorded 1997.

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Ted Hughes interview and a reading from The Iron Man

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Duration: 0:48
Updated: 11 Nov 2012

Ted Hughes speaking about putting his stories to music and he reads an extract from The Iron Man.

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Richard Armitage reads Ted Hughes' letters

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Duration: 4:30
Updated: 10 Dec 2012

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century. They were married but their relationship was never easy. They split up and, after writing her best poems, Sylvia killed herself. She was only 30. Ted Hughes wrote to Sylvia's mother after some time from her suicide. Can you imagine his sense of guilt? How difficult could it be to write such a letter? It's extremely moving. The images are taken from SYLVIA (2003) starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. More info on my blog: flyhigh-by-learnonline.blogspot.com Richard Armitage read from the letters of the poet Ted Hughes in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 29th October 2007. More info on: www.richardarmitageonline.com

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A Tribute To Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Part 1

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Duration: 7:30
Updated: 10 Dec 2012

Part 1 of a two-part tribute to the legendary literary couple.

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Ted Hughes - The Thought-Fox (from 'The Hawk in the Rain', 1957)

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Duration: 1:12
Updated: 03 Dec 2012

Ted Hughes reads the magnificent, enchanting poem from his début collection, published in 1957. I hope you enjoy the video, please feel free to leave a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.

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Ted Hughes - Pike (from Lupercal, 1960)

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Duration: 2:46
Updated: 07 Dec 2012

Ted Hughes reads his own exquisite poem about pike fishing. It was first published in Encounter in March of 1960, and was collected in Lupercal (1960). I hope you enjoy the film, please feel free to leave a comment. I do not own any rights to the recording.

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lovesong read by ted hughes

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Duration: 2:13
Updated: 21 Dec 2012

Ted Hughes reading his poem Lovesong Lovesong He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked She wanted him complete inside her Safe and sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Off that moment's brink and into nothing Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His words were occupying armies Her laughs were an assassin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot Her vows put his eyes in formalin At the back ...

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Ted Hughes on 'Crow'

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Duration: 2:16
Updated: 13 Dec 2012

Excerpts from an interview with Ted Hughes, discussing the concept of 'Crow'

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Ted Hughes memorial marks poetic evolution

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Duration: 5:04
Updated: 29 Mar 2012

Former Poet laureate Ted Hughes has been honoured with a new plaque in Westminster Abbey.

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A Tribute To Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Part 2

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Duration: 7:15
Updated: 10 Dec 2012

Second part of the two-part tribute.

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"Last Letter" - Ted Hughes, read by Dave Stewart

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Duration: 10:20
Updated: 27 Oct 2012

Discovered in the British library 47 years after the death of his wife Sylvia Plath, here is Ted Hughes' "Last Letter" poem to Plath, read by Dave Stewart.

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Ted Hughes - The Lovepet

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Duration: 2:55
Updated: 13 Nov 2012

Ted Hughes reading his poem 'The Lovepet'

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Ted Hughes - The Jaguar

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Duration: 1:25
Updated: 31 Oct 2012

Ted Hughes reads his poem The Jaguar The Jaguar Ted Hughes (1930-1998) The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut. Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion Lie still as the sun. The boa-constrictor's coil Is a fossil. Cage after cage seems empty, or Stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw. It might be painted on a nursery wall. But who runs like the rest past these arrives At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerized, As a child at a dream, at a jaguar hurrying enraged Through prison darkness after the drills of his eyes On a short fierce fuse. Not in boredom — The eye satisfied to be blind in fire, By the bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear — He spins from the bars, but there's no cage to him More than to the visionary his cell: His stride is wildernesses of freedom: The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

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Ted Hughes - A Poet of the XX century

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Duration: 2:37
Updated: 17 Sep 2012

This is a short video dedicated to Ted Hughes, my favourite English poet, who would have turned 77 on August 17th next.

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Lovesong -- by Ted Hughes

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Duration: 2:07
Updated: 25 Aug 2012

Lovesong -- by Ted Hughes --------------------------------------- He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked him She wanted him complete inside her Safe and sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Off that moment's brink and into nothing Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His words were occupying armies Her laughs were an assassin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot Her vows put his eyes ...

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Ted Hughes-Thought Fox.avi

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Duration: 3:27
Updated: 05 Feb 2012

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Cillian Murphy reads Lovesong by Ted Hughes

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Duration: 2:34
Updated: 15 Dec 2012

Lovesong by Ted Hughes He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two ...

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Echo & Narcissus (Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid) 1/3: The Beautiful Youth and Juno's Curse

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Duration: 4:42
Updated: 27 Sep 2012

1. The Beautiful Youth and Juno's Curse. Read by the Poet. ISBN 0141802480 Part Two: www.youtube.com Part Three: www.youtube.com www.amazon.com www.bookfinder.com Print edition: www.amazon.com

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LaburnumTop - Ted Hughes

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Duration: 13:26
Updated: 17 Nov 2012

Laburnum Top - Poem by Poet: Ted Hughes Univexcellence.com - Contact: 9414987746 and Email: univexcellence101@gmail.comVideo Lectures: This is a unique facility in itself to provide education in remote areas and villages where due to shortage of teachers and staff, students are devoid of educational facilities. In this facility a user can view live recorded video of Expert Teachers who are unavailable at remote areas and learn from experts as if they were teaching in Live Class Room. With this facility, we will achieve our mission of "Quality Education for all, anywhere anytime".

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Richard Armitage reads poem by Ted Hughes "Song"

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Duration: 2:35
Updated: 18 Dec 2012

It's a birthday present for Annette (IloveRichardArmitage). ALL THE BEST ANNETTE! The poem: O lady, when the tipped cup of the moon blessed you You became soft fire with a cloud's grace; The difficult stars swam for eyes in your face; You stood, and your shadow was my place: You turned, your shadow turned to ice O my lady. O lady, when the sea caressed you You were a marble of foam, but dumb. When will the stone open its tomb? When will the waves give over their foam? You will not die, nor come home, O my lady. O lady, when the wind kissed you You made him music for you were a shaped shell. I follow the waters and the wind still Since my heart heard it and all to pieces fell Which your lovers stole, meaning ill, O my lady. O lady, consider when I shall have lost you The moon's full hands, scattering waste, The sea's hands, dark from the world's breast, The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust, O my lady. _________________________________ Music: "Serenata" - Immediate Music Clips property of the BBC _________________________________ #6 - Most Discussed (Today) - Poland #88 - Most Discussed (Today) - Film & Animation - Global #1 - Most Discussed (Today) - Film & Animation - Poland #38 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Film & Animation - Poland #87 - Most Viewed (Today) - Film & Animation - Poland #1 - Top Favorites (Today) - Poland #39 - Top Favorites (Today) - Film & Animation ...

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Obama promises gun control early next year

Sowetan Live

20 Dec 2012

Obama held a White House news conference on Wednesday to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an interagency effort to craft new gun policies. The group is expected to offer its proposals in January. “We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides,” Obama said. “But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing.” ... WAKE-UP CALL ... ....(size: 6.1Kb)

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This still image included in a video obtained by the Associated Press from Fahd al-Bakoush, a freelance videographer and activist, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the body of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens being moved by Libyan civilians trying to rescue him after gunmen and protesters rampaged through the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The group of Libyans had stumbled across Stevens' seemingly lifeless form inside a dark room and didn't know who he was, only that he was a foreigner, al-Bakoush and two other witnesses told the AP.

U.S. State Dept officials resign under pressure over Benghazi killings

Reuters

20 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior U.S. State Department officials were asked to resign after an official inquiry harshly criticized their offices for failing to provide adequate security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, before it came under attack in September, a U.S. official said on Wednesday ... State Department officials declined to comment on the matter, saying it was a personnel issue ... Joint Chiefs of Staff ... facilities....(size: 5.4Kb)

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President Barack Obama gestures while speaking during the his visit to the Disaster Operation Center of the Red Cross National Headquarter to discuss superstorm Sandy

Obama backs bill to ban assault weapons

The Star

19 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON. US President Barack Obama backs a new bill to revive an assault weapons ban and other new gun laws, the White House said Tuesday, fleshing out his nascent response to a shocking school massacre. Obama also called an ardently pro-gun senator who has shifted his position on firearms laws since Friday's carnage in Connecticut and has begun meeting top cabinet officials to consider his options, his spokesman Jay Carney said ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)

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A Libyan military guard stands in front of one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt out buildings during the visit of President Mohammed el-Megarif, not shown, to the U.S. Consulate to express sympathy for the death of the American ambassador, Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the deadly attack on the Consulate last Tuesday September 11, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.

Clinton accepts Benghazi findings

Al Jazeera

19 Dec 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she accepts the findings of an independent panel that faulted the State Department over the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. An inquiry into the attack on the US mission, which saw the US ambassador and three other US citizens killed, found that the State Department security arrangements there were "grossly inadequate" ... 390 Source . ... Share ... Jaws ... Anaheim....(size: 19.2Kb)

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In this May 12, 2010 photo, Malian troops and soldiers from other African countries train with the U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali.

U.N. OKs offensive to oust extremists in Mali

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

21 Dec 2012

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized military action to wrest northern Mali from the control of al-Qaida-linked extremists, but it demanded progress first on political reconciliation, elections and training African troops and police ... Instead, it set out benchmarks to be met before the start of offensive operations, starting with progress on a political roadmap to restore constitutional order ... U.N ... On Nov ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)

Best Books Of 2013?: Our Picks For The Year's Biggest Reads

Huffington Post

21 Dec 2012

What are the best books of 2013? We've stepped out of our time machine (hint ... Trust us ... A.L ... On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this new biography is the first to draw from Ted Hughes's archive ... This sci-fi tale already has an incredible following, was a number 1 bestseller on Amazon, and <a href=""http.//www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-howey/self-published-book-wool-movie_b_1540211.html">Ridley" Scott has optioned it....(size: 14.3Kb)

Working Men's Clubs - can this British institution rise from the ashes of Phoenix Nights?

The Independent

18 Dec 2012

Clair enters a state of herbal induced apoplexy during his weekly Free and Easy night ... In February, legendary Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore plays The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge – resting place of Sylvia Plath and birthplace of Ted Hughes – for a sold-out gig at the same venue which this September saw the one and only Patti Smith play a benefit show for the flood relief fund, after learning of the damage to the area....(size: 9.1Kb)

Documents to remain sealed at Phoenix Sinclair inquiry

CBC

13 Dec 2012

Documents concerning a witness at the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry will remain sealed. Kim Edwards, Phoenix's godmother, revealed on Wesnesday that she had a past involvement with Manitoba's Child and Family Services agency when she was a teenager ... On Thursday, the inquiry commissioner Ted Hughes decided against unsealing the file and instructed lawyer Kris Saxberg to return the document to wherever it had come from....(size: 1.9Kb)

Narnia author C.S. Lewis to get stone in Poets' Corner

CBC

23 Nov 2012

C.S ... Lewis joins such greats as John Keats, William Blake, Charles Dickens and T.S ... Former poet laureate Ted Hughes was the most recent writer to be commemorated at the Abbey with a posthumous memorial stone ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)

Mum's the Word

Wall Street Journal

23 Nov 2012

By BEN DOWNING. Were it possible actually to measure qualities like tact, poise, cheerfulness and imperturbable good manners, Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) would surely hold a bushel of Guinness World Records ... By Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ... Mr ... And her correspondents include a surprising number of cultural figures, among them Benjamin Britten, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, with whom she forged a rather touching late friendship ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)

Mandela photograph nets R65 000

Independent online (SA)

22 Nov 2012

Back in 1952, photographer Jürgen Schadeberg was paid £40 for this picture. Last night, it netted R65 000 at an auction. The picture is of a young Nelson Mandela in the law office he ran in partnership with Oliver Tambo ... Schadeberg and journalist Ted Hughes arrived late. Hughes, said Schadeberg, who drove a Cadillac convertible, had forgotten where he had parked it. ... INLSA ... One of these prints went for R60 000 ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)

CS Lewis to be honoured in Poets' Corner

BBC News

22 Nov 2012

A memorial stone to writer and scholar CS Lewis is to be placed in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 2013 ... Former poet laureate Ted Hughes was the most recent writer to be commemorated at the Abbey with a posthumous memorial stone ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)

Mandela photo sold for R65 000

Independent online (SA)

21 Nov 2012

Johannesburg - Back in 1952, photographer Jürgen Schadeberg was paid £40 for his picture of Nelson Mandela. On Tuesday night, it netted R65 000 at an auction. The picture is of a young Mandela in the law office he ran in partnership with Oliver Tambo ... Schadeberg and journalist Ted Hughes arrived late. Hughes, said Schadeberg, who drove a Cadillac convertible, had forgotten where he had parked it ... shaun.smillie@inl.co.za ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)

Visible Ink (University of St Andrews)

noodls

21 Nov 2012

Visible Ink. Wednesday 21 November 2012 ... This lecture is free and open to all ... Of the workings and re-workings the archive reveals, Douglas Dunn said. ... You simply have to get the tone right, you have to get the pitch right.". This extensive archive also includes letters from many notable writers including George Mackay Brown, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, and is held in the University Library's Special Collections ... distributed by....(size: 5.3Kb)

The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review

The Guardian

16 Nov 2012

Almeida, London 4. Poignant ... The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, at the Almeida, London. Photograph. Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Plays about poets are notoriously problematic ... Avoiding the traps of the bio-play, Dear presents Thomas's life from multiple perspectives ... By modern standards, it's a quiet play – but it poignantly reflects the contradictions of a poet whom Ted Hughes called "the father of us all" ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)

'Letters and Drawings' offers personal touch

Houston Chronicle

16 Nov 2012

By Molly Glentzer . November 16, 2012 . Updated. November 16, 2012 12.24pm. Comments (0) E-mail Print. Tweet. Page 1 of 1. The exhibit "Dear John and Dominique ... Thomas in the late 1960s ... She can quickly put her finger on things that make researchers swoon, like never-displayed letters by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes or the tire that Robert Rauschenberg rolled down the aisle for the funeral of futuristic architect Frederick Kiesler ... 11 a.m ... 6 ... ....(size: 15.1Kb)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Historian Who Examined Southern Conduct, Dies at 80

The New York Times

15 Nov 2012

5 in Baltimore. He was 80. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Go to Arts Beat » ... Go to Event Listings » ... Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... (While there, he befriended a group of poets that included Ted Hughes. It was Mr ... Hughes to Sylvia Plath, the poet and novelist he later married.) He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 1963, studying under the Southern historian C. Vann Woodward. Mr....(size: 10.8Kb)

Phoenix Sinclair inquiry to finally resume

Canoe

13 Nov 2012

Wednesday, inquiry commissioner Ted Hughes is slated to hear further testimony from Andrew Orobko, a former unit supervisor at Winnipeg CFS, the now-defunct agency which handled Phoenix's case ... 7 after the provincial appeals court agreed to hear a case against Hughes put forward by four CFS authorities in their quest to get verbatim transcripts of all internal pre-interviews commission lawyers did with prospective witnesses ... Twitter ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)

Ted Hughes

Born	Edward James Hughes (1930-08-17)17 August 1930 Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England
Died	28 October 1998(1998-10-28) (aged 68) London, England
Occupation	Poet, playwright, writer
Nationality	English
Spouse(s)	Sylvia Plath (m. 1956–1963) Carol Orchard (m. 1970–1998)
Partner(s)	Assia Wevill (1962–1969)
Children	Frieda Hughes Nicholas Hughes (deceased) Alexandra Wevill (deceased)
Influences Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot
Influenced Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath

Preceded by John Betjeman	British Poet Laureate 1984–1998	Succeeded by Andrew Motion

Persondata
Name	Hughes, Ted
Alternative names	Hughes, Edward James
Short description	Poet
Date of birth	17 August 1930
Place of birth	Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Date of death	28 October 1998
Place of death	London, England

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Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OM (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet 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 American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until her death by suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial to some feminists and (particularly) American admirers of Plath. His last poetic work, Birthday Letters (1998), explored their complex relationship. These poems make reference to Plath's suicide, but none of them addresses directly the circumstances of her death. A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Hughes, Ted Filmography

Famous quotes by Ted Hughes:

"Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea."

"What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan."

"They think I should give them my mother's words/To fill the mouth of their monster/Their Sylvia Suicide Doll."

"I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it."

"Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse."

"Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all."

"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

"Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea."

"What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan."

"They think I should give them my mother's words/To fill the mouth of their monster/Their Sylvia Suicide Doll."

"I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it."

"Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse."

"Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all."

"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

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