Ted Hauoghs Thrushes Zahra Karimi
Term Project
Subject: Ted Hughes’ "Thrushes”
Professor’s Name: Ms. Abhari
Compiled By: Zahra Karimi,
Student of English Literature
Ted Hughes
Life
Edward James (Ted) Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding district of
Yorkshire, on August 17, 1930. His childhood was quiet and dominantly rural. When he was seven years old his family moved to the small town of Mexborough in South
Yorkshire, and the landscape of the moors of that area informed his poetry throughout his life. After high school, Hughes entered the Royal Air Force and served for two years as a ground wireless mechanic. He then moved to Cambridge to attend Pembroke College on an academic scholarship. While in college he published a few poems, majored in
Anthropology and Archaeology, and studied mythologies extensively.
Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later, in 1956, he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. At the launch party for the magazine, he met Sylvia Plath. A few short months later, on June 16, 1956, they were married.
Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript, The Hawk in the Rain, to The
Poetry Center's First Publication book contest. The judges, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, and Stephen Spender, awarded the manuscript first prize, and it was published in England and America in 1957, to much critical praise.
Hughes lived in Massachusetts with Plath and taught at University of Massachusetts
Amherst. They returned to England in 1959, and their first child, Freida was born the following year. Their second child, Nicholas, was born two years later.
In 1962, Hughes left Plath for Assia Gutmann Wevill. Less than a year later, Plath committed suicide. Hughes did not write again for years, as he focused all of his energy on editing and promoting Plath’s poems. He was also roundly lambasted by the public, who saw him as responsible for his wife’s suicide. Controversy surrounded his editorial choices
regarding
Subject: Ted Hughes’ "Thrushes”
Professor’s Name: Ms. Abhari
Compiled By: Zahra Karimi,
Student of English Literature
Ted Hughes
Life
Edward James (Ted) Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding district of
Yorkshire, on August 17, 1930. His childhood was quiet and dominantly rural. When he was seven years old his family moved to the small town of Mexborough in South
Yorkshire, and the landscape of the moors of that area informed his poetry throughout his life. After high school, Hughes entered the Royal Air Force and served for two years as a ground wireless mechanic. He then moved to Cambridge to attend Pembroke College on an academic scholarship. While in college he published a few poems, majored in
Anthropology and Archaeology, and studied mythologies extensively.
Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later, in 1956, he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. At the launch party for the magazine, he met Sylvia Plath. A few short months later, on June 16, 1956, they were married.
Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript, The Hawk in the Rain, to The
Poetry Center's First Publication book contest. The judges, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, and Stephen Spender, awarded the manuscript first prize, and it was published in England and America in 1957, to much critical praise.
Hughes lived in Massachusetts with Plath and taught at University of Massachusetts
Amherst. They returned to England in 1959, and their first child, Freida was born the following year. Their second child, Nicholas, was born two years later.
In 1962, Hughes left Plath for Assia Gutmann Wevill. Less than a year later, Plath committed suicide. Hughes did not write again for years, as he focused all of his energy on editing and promoting Plath’s poems. He was also roundly lambasted by the public, who saw him as responsible for his wife’s suicide. Controversy surrounded his editorial choices
regarding