Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OMwas an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 August 1930
brain spats
He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
dawn shows
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.
spring ideas giving
One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?
darkness doe cold
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
letters antiques talent
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
dream sleep eye
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
instruments changed fangs
The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.
remains happened
What happened casually remains -
addresses parcel
Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.
dreamer moments that-moment
The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it
throat shocking pathetic
The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.