Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection of poems, 'Birthday Letters' in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape.
Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection of poems, 'Birthday Letters' in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape.