Poet Ted Hughes

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Ted Hughes

Living place: England

Birthday: 17-8-1930 (94 years old)

Global rank: #32809

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Poet Ted Hughes profile

Who is Poet Ted Hughes?
Poet Laureate's most famous works include The Hawk in the Rain, Crow, and Birthday Letters. He also translated numerous works, including Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind and Federico Garcia Lorca's Wedding Blood.
He is known as a poet, but he has also worked in the theater and won prestigious awards for his children's literature.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He grew up in the English countryside of Calder Valley and later studied at Pembroke College.

Family life info

He was famously married to American poet Sylvia Plath, with whom he had two children. Seven years after Plath's much public suicide, Hughes married Carol Orchard.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Ted Hughes?
He and artist Leonard Baskin collaborated on The Life and Songs of Crow.

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Summary of Ted Hughes profile

When was Poet Ted Hughes born?
Ted Hughes birthday 17-8-1930 (at the age of 94).
Where is Poet Ted Hughes's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ted Hughes was born in England. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Ted Hughes's global rank is 32809 and whose rank is 71 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1930 and 17-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Ted Hughes

  • Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty.
  • Nazis gain in German elections.
  • Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia.

Birthday Ted Hughes (17-8) in history

  • Day 17-8 year 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, began its trip up the Hudson River to Albany.
  • Day 17-8 year 1863: Fort Sumter, S.C. was bombarded by Union ships during the Civil War.
  • Day 17-8 year 1896: Prospectors found gold in Alaska, a discovery that set off the Klondike gold rush.
  • Day 17-8 year 1945: Indonesian nationalists proclaimed independence from the Netherlands.
  • Day 17-8 year 1962: 18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot and killed by guards at the Berlin Wall, spurring riots.
  • Day 17-8 year 1969: Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.
  • Day 17-8 year 1978: The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight landed outside of Paris.
  • Day 17-8 year 1987: Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's second in command, committed suicide.
  • Day 17-8 year 2008: U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal, breaking the record set by Mark Spitz in the 1972 Games. Phelps also set the record for the most golds in a single Olympics.
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