Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an eminent English poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation starting in the late 1950s. He was named poet laureate in 1985. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in the Yorkshire town of Mytholmroyd in England. His home bac...

Ted Hughes is one of a very few contemporary British poets to have gained a significant reputation outside Britain. Of poets near him in age only Thom Gunn and, in more recent years, Geoffrey Hill have quickened as much critical interest in the English-s...

Ted Hughes's poetry for adults has made him one of the most important British writers in the second half of the twentieth century. When his work first appeared in the late 1950s, it struck many readers as a bold departure from the urbane and understated...

Light breakfast the perfect gift for Christmas By ANNETTE GOOCH Wednesday, December 13, 2000 Here's a Christmas breakfast informal enough to enjoy at a leisurely pace, in stages. The menu is satisfying enough to fuel everyone for the opening of the...

The transit of autumn has seemed particularly gentle this year. The days remain warm and the nights are not yet cold, not really. The passages at dawn and dusk are filled with that peculiar golden glow of mid-October that makes each leaf seem...