Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times
The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to fancy him, Ted Hughes has become a figure of myth – but to Robert McCrum, he was a mentor and a friend
Source: independent.co.uk
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