English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1623 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ted Hughes
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The idea
Ted Hughes, fascinated by animals from childhood, wrote violent, elemental nature poetry in collections such as The Hawk in the Rain and Crow. He married the American poet Sylvia Plath in nineteen fifty-six and was Poet Laureate from nineteen eighty-four until his death.
In practice
Animals, violence, myth.
Where people slip
Hughes is not a Movement poet.
Your place on the trail
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