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Born in August 17, 1930 / Died in October 28, 1998 / United Kingdom / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Children's Literature Review, Volume 3, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1978.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 37, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1986.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland since 1960, Part 1, 1985, Volume 161: British Children's Writers since 1960, first series, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Faas, Ekbert, Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe, Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
  • Gifford, Terry, and Neil Roberts, Ted Hughes: A Critical Study, Faber and Faber (London, England), 1981.
  • Hamilton, Ian, editor, The Modern Poet: Essays from "The Review," MacDonald, 1968.
  • King, P. R., Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction, Methuen, 1979.
  • Malcolm, Janet, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, Knopf (New York City), 1994.
  • Myers, Lucas, Crow Steered/Bergs Appeared: A Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Proctor's Hall Press (Sewanee, TN), 2001.
  • Newsmakers, 1999, Issue 2, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers, 2nd edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • Sagar, Keith, Ted Hughes, Longman, 1972, enlarged as The Art of Ted Hughes, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1978.
  • Sagar, Keith, The Achievement of Ted Hughes, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1983.
  • Sagar, Keith, The Challenge of Ted Hughes, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Tennant, Emma, Sylvia and Ted, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2001.

PERIODICALS

  • Agenda, winter, 1994.
  • American Poetry Review, January-February, 1982; September, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 11.
  • Antioch Review, winter, 1999, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 117.
  • Booklist, February 15, 1998, review ofThe Birthday Letters, p. 946; March 15, 1999, review of Tales from Ovid, p. 1295; June 1, 1999, review of The Oresteia, p. 1770.
  • Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, October, 1995.
  • Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1998, sec. 1, p. 13.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, February 22, 1981, Joseph Parisi, review of Moortown.
  • Christian Science Monitor, March 11, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 14.
  • Commonweal, November 6, 1992.
  • Guardian, October 30, 1998, Katharine Viner and others, "Beneath the Passion, a Life Plagued by Demons," p. 4.
  • Independent, October 30, 1998, Boyd Tonkin, "The God of Granite Who Could Shatter Stones with Plain Words," p. 3, Lachlan Mackinnon, "Ted Hughes," p. 6.
  • Library Journal, May 15, 1993; February 15, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 145; review of The Oresteia, p. 110; June 1, 1999.
  • Listener, January 12, 1984.
  • Literary Review, spring, 1981.
  • London Review of Books, February 19, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 8.
  • Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1998, Marjorie Miller, "Britain Loses Poet laureate Ted Hughes, 68, to Cancer," pp. A1, A12.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 10, 1980, Peter Clothier, review of Moortown; March 15, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 7.
  • Nation, April 20, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 25.
  • New England Review, fall, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 154.
  • New Republic, September 3, 1984; June 6, 1994, p. 34; March 30, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 30.
  • New Statesman, January 4, 1980.
  • New Statesman and Society, April 17, 1992; April 14, 1995, p. 45; January 30, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 45.
  • Newsweek, April 12, 1971, Jack Kroll, review of Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow.
  • New Yorker, August 23, 1993.
  • New York Review of Books, June 10, 1982; March 5, 1998, review ofThe Birthday Letters, p. 7.
  • New York Times Book Review, July 20, 1980, Christopher Ricks, review of Moortown, p. 13; April 21, 1991, William Logan, review of Wolfwatching, p. 22; January 7, 1996, Penelope Laurans, review of Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose, p. 21; October 13, 1996, Andy Solomon, review of Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories; December 14, 1997, James Shapiro, "Sex and Violence in Latin Hexameter"; February 13, 1998, Michiko Kakutani, "A Portrait of Plath in Poetry for Its Own Sake," p. 43; March 1, 1998, Katha Pollitt, "Peering into the Bell Jar," p. 4; March 15, 1998, Carol Muske, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 5; May 31, 1998, review of Tales from Ovid, p. 24; January 24, 1999, Eavan Boland, "Ted Hughes: A Reconciliation," p. 31; September 5, 1999, Garry Wills, "After the Trojan Horse: A New Translation by Ted Hughes of Aeschylus' Trilogy on the Fall of the House of Atreus," p. 10.
  • Observer (London), June 14, 1992; March 5, 1995; February 1, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 15; December 6, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 15; May 2, 1999, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 14; May 15, 2001, Vanessa Thorpe, "Secret Passions of a Poet Laureate," p. 4.
  • Poetry, June, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters and Tales from Ovid, p. 154.
  • Publishers Weekly, July 17, 1995, p. 230; August 21, 1995, p. 56; February 2, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 75; May 31, 1999, review of The Oresteia, p. 89.
  • Quill and Quire, February, 1994, p. 40.
  • School Librarian, November, 1991, p. 144; August, 1993, p. 108; February, 1996, p. 28.
  • Sewanee Review, July, 1998, review of Winter Pollen, p. 69.
  • Spectator, June 20, 1992; March 12, 1994; March 18, 1995; January 31, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 42.
  • Time, April 5, 1971, Christopher Porterfield; February 16, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 101.
  • Times (London), January 8, 1987, April 8, 2000, James Bone, "Hughes Papers Reveal Devotion to Plath," p. 10; April 10, 2000, James Bone, "Plath Owed Her Success to Me, Says Hughes," p. 5, Erica Wagner, "At Last, Justice for Hughes," p. S6; May 15, 2001, Erica Wagner, "The Poet as Rock God," p. S2; October 30, 1998, Peter Stothard, "The Poet Laureate's Last Reading," p. 24.
  • Times Educational Supplement, January 30, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 12.
  • Times Literary Supplement, January 4, 1980; April 17, 1992; May 6, 1994; November 17, 1995; February 6, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 3; December 4, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters.
  • USA Today, October 29, 1998.
  • Washington Post Book World, November 22, 1992, Gary Taylor; March 8, 1998, Linda Pastan, "Scenes from a Marriage," p. 5; March 15, 1998, review of Difficulties of a Bridegroom, p. 12.
  • Women's Review of Books, June, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 8.
  • World Literature Today, spring, 1998, review of Tales from Ovid, p. 379; summer, 1998, review of The Birthday Letters, p. 621.

OTHER

  • Academy of American Poets, http://www.poets.org/ (September 12, 2001), "Ted Hughes."

OBITUARIES:

PERIODICALS

  • New York Times, October 30, 1998, Sarah Lyall, "Ted Hughes, 68, a Symbolic Poet and Sylvia Plath's Husband, Dies," p. A1.
  • Washington Post, October 30, 1998, "British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes Dies at 68; Turbulent Marriage to Writer Silvia Plath Dogged His Reputation after Her Suicide," p. B6.