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Ted Hughes, O.M. ()
Edward Hadley (Open University, UK) presents a biographical sketch of Ted Hughes.
Born on 17 August , Edward James 'Ted' Hughes would, over the course of his life, produce some of the most important and innovative poetry written in English in the twentieth century.
As a child, Hughes lived with his father, William, his mother, Edith Farrar, and his elder siblings Gerald and Olwyn at 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. Aged seven, he moved to Mexborough where William ran a tobacco shop.
His immediate family would all become involved in Hughes’s poetic career at various points and for different reasons; Hughes drew upon his father’s experiences as a frontline soldier during the First World War to inform some of his finest war-verse; his mother’s voice is registered literally and figuratively in a number of poems, but she is most keenly felt in Remains of Elmet (); Gerald Hughes, who emigrated to Australia, is present in a number of poems and