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Works Cited
Camerford, Patrick. Punting on the Backs in Cambridge. 2010. Cambridge. Mexborough. 1955. Mexborough Popova, Maria. Sylvia Plath Meets Ted Hughes. N.d. Yorkshire. -
Works Cited
Skea, Ann. "Ted Hughes: Timeline." Timeline. N.p., Apr. 2013. Web. 01 May 2014. http://ann.skea.com/timeline.htm. Spatty. St. John's Parish Church. 2007. Mexborough. "Ted Hughes." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, 2011. Web. 01 May 2014. http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ted-hughes. "Ted Hughes." Ted Hughes. Faber and Faber, 2012. Web. 01 May 2014. http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/ted-hughes. The Rochedale Canal. N.d. Mytholmroyd. -
Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ted Hughes was born on August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire. He had two older siblings, and they were all brought up on his grandmother's farm. There are many animal and nature references in his poems and this contributed to it. -
Hughes family moves
Ted Hughes' family packed up and moved to the small town of Mexborough in South Yorkshire when he was 7 years old. -
Hughes goes to Mexborough Grammar School
Mexborough Grammar School is the school Hughes attended to recieve pre-collegiate education. -
First record of poems
Titled "Zulus and the Wild West" Hughes said he wrote it "all in imitation of Kipling."
(Rudyard Kipling, an English Poet and story writer) -
Hughes goes to Cambridge!
He studied English in the Pembroke College at Cambridge University -
Fun Times
Hughes switches from studying English to studying Achaeology and Anthropology -
Graduation from Cambridge!!
He studied English at Cambridge. Hughes said "I spent most of my time reading folklore and Yeats’s poems. Beethoven’s music… was my therapy" Shakespeare was one of his major influences and idols -
Cofounded the "St. Boltoph's Review"
At the launch party for the literary magazine him and his friends made. ALSO: where he met Sylvia Plath (very important) -
First Marriage
With Sylvia Plath:
can be described as disastrous, but also his most important -
First book of poems published
"The Hawk in the Rain" Published "More than fifty years after its publication, The Hawk in the Rain remains one of Ted Hughes’s most important, and most accomplished, collections." -Heather Clark -
First Child Born!!!!
Frieda is born, Hughes' and Plath's first child together -
Dinner at T.S Eliot's
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Second Child Born!!!!
Nicholas is born -
Separation
Hughes and Plath agree to a separation. Ted moves to London Caused a major chain reaction -
Sylvia Plath Dies
Hughes' first wife, Sylvia Plath, killed herself by carbon monoxide poisoning causes more chain reaction -
Third Child Born
Shura Wevill is born- Her mother is Assia Wevill
Hughes and Wevill were not married -
Shura and Assia deaths
Assia kills herself and her daugher Shura the same way Plath killed herself, carbon monoxide poisoning -
Second Marriage: Third Lady
Carol Orchard and Ted Hughes get married, where they stay married until Hughes died -
Award!!!
Recieves the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry -
Award!!!!
Awarded OBE: Officer of the Order of the British Empire Awarded for being internationally known for his poetry -
Poet Laureate
Hughes appointed British Poet Laureate from 1984 until the time he died (appointed by the government to write poems for special occasions- like William Wordsworth) -
Award!!!
Award of Honorary Degree from Cambridge University -
Published Birthday Letters
Book of poems published the same year he died that honored his relationship with Sylvia Plath. Hughes publishing this book broke his poetic stalemate my favorite poem by Hughes was published in this collection, it is named "Ouija" "The publication earlier this year of Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes's powerful, intimate sequence of poems about his relationship with his late wife Sylvia Plath, caught the literary world off-guard." -The Literary Review (Rpt. by Carol Bere) -
Death
Ted Hughes passed on 28 October 1998.
(his memorial serivice was given at Westminster Abbey) Birthday Letters recieves many awards, and soon becomes his most famous book of poems Let it be known: Ted Hughes published hundreds of amazing poems and many books, but I only put the most important on this timeline
