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Ted Hughes
Later life
His first book of poems - "The Hawk in the rain" - won first place in a poetry competition after being published in 1957
In 1984, Ted Hughes became the Poet Laureate, which he kept until his death
Hughes wrote poems, children's books and translated roman poetry and classical plays
Studies English and Anthropology at Pembroke college, Cambridge University from 1951-1954
After graduation, he worked as a zoo attendant and night watchman
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Early life
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He had two siblings, Gerald who was 10 years older than him and Olwyn who was 2 years older.
When he was 7, his family moved to Mexborough to run a newsagents shop
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His first published poem appeared in a school magazine when he was 16, in 1946.
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Birth and death
Born on the 17th of August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
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Relationships
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Assia Wevill
Hughes left Plath on holiday to meet Wevill in London and went on a 10 day trip to spain with her, at the same place that he and Sylvia honeymooned
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Assia also killed herself by gas oven, but took her child with her 23rd March 1969
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