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休斯 Ted Hughes
英国 温莎王朝  (1930年8月17日1998年10月28日)
Edward James Hughes
特德·休斯
埃德华·詹姆斯·休斯
出生地: 西约克郡

诗词《七愁》   《蓟 circium, thistles》   《鼠之舞》   《马群》   《风 Wind》   《栖息着的鹰 Hawk Roosting》   《乌鸦的最后据点》   《子宫口的口试 Examination at the Womb-Door》   《乌鸦的第一课》   《云雀》   更多诗歌...
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埃德华·詹姆斯·休斯OMEdward James Hughes,1930年8月17日-1998年10月28日),常称特德·休斯Ted Hughes),是英国诗人儿童文学作家。
特德·休斯(Ted Hughes, 1930-1998)出生于西约克郡,毕业于剑桥大学,之后作过园丁、夜间守门人等。1956年他与在剑桥结识的美国女诗人西尔维亚·普拉斯结婚,并移居美国。1960年休斯举家回到英国,两年后婚姻破裂,普拉斯于次年自杀身亡。休斯儿时喜爱射击渔猎,他对于动物和自然之美的着迷都表现在他的第一部诗集《雨中的鹰》(The Hawk in the Rain, 1957)中。休斯激昂奔放的诗风与当时风行的冷静内敛的“运动派”诗人截然不同,给读者以新鲜感,受到大众的欢迎。之后,休斯还陆续发表诗集《牧神之地》(Lupercal, 1960)等,并创作了不少儿诗,都颇受好评。1970年出版的诗集《乌鸦》(Crow)包括一系列以乌鸦为主要象征的诗作,这一象征还反复出现在他后来的诗作中,休斯以乌鸦这一阴郁的形象写出自然和人性中暴虐的一面,将创世纪的神话刻画得血腥可怖,因此也有评论认为他的诗歌过于暴力残忍。其后的诗集《穴鸟》(Cave Birds, 1975)、《季节之歌》(Season Songs, 1976)和《沼泽之城》(Moortown, 1979)等,延续了他一贯形象鲜明,韵律生动的风格。1984年休斯赢得桂冠诗人的称号。

诗集有《雨中的鹰》、《生日信件》、《河》等。


Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. His funeral was attended by many relatives and fans; also attending were several celebrities, including Seamus Heaney.

Ted Hughes was married from 1956 to 1963 to the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial, to some feminists and (particularly) US admirers of Plath, who even accused him of murder. Hughes himself never publicly entered the debate, but his last poetic work, Birthday Letters (1998), explored their complex relationship, and to many, put him in a significantly better light.

In 2003 he was portrayed by British actor Daniel Craig in Sylvia, a biographical film of Sylvia Plath.

Ted Hughes was born on August 18, 1930 at number 1, Aspinal Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire and raised among the local farms in the area. According to Hughes, "My first nine years shaped everything". When Hughes was seven, his family moved to Mexborough, South Yorkshire, where they ran a newsagents and tobacco shop. He also had a brother, Gerald, who was ten years older, as well as a sister, Olwyn, two years older.

Personal life

Hughes studied English, anthropology and archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. At this time his first published poetry appeared in the journal he started with fellow students, St. Botolph's Review, and at a party to launch the magazine he met Sylvia Plath. He and Plath married on June 16, 1956, four months after they had first met.

Hughes and Plath had two children, but separated in the autumn of 1962, though he continued to live at Court Green irregularly, with his lover Assia Wevill, after Plath's death on February 11, 1963, but the relationship eventually lost its appeal for him, and he became involved with other women. As Plath's widower, Hughes became the executor of Plath’s personal and literary estates. He oversaw the publication of her manuscripts, including Ariel (1966). He also claimed to have destroyed the final volume of Plath’s journal, detailing their last few months together. In his foreword to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, he defends his actions as a consideration for the couple's young children.

Six years after Plath's suicide by asphyxiation from a gas stove, on March 25, 1969, Assia Wevill committed suicide after murdering Shura (her four-year old daughter by Hughes), in the same way as Plath had done; Alexandra Tatiana Elise, nicknamed Shura, had been born on March 3, 1965.

In August 1970, Hughes married a nurse called Carol Orchard. They remained together despite his many affairs over the years, until his death. He received the Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II just before he died.

Ted Hughes continued to live at the house in Devon, until his fatal heart attack on October 28, 1998, while undergoing treatment for colon cancer. His funeral was held at North Tawton church, and he was cremated at Exeter, with the ashes scattered on Dartmoor, near Cranmere Pool (by special Royal permission).

Seamus Heaney, speaking at Ted Hughes' funeral, in North Tawton on November 3rd, 1998, said:

“ No death outside my immediate family has left me feeling more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more. He was a tower of tenderness and strength, a great arch under which the least of poetry's children could enter and feel secure. His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. By his death, the veil of poetry is rent and the walls of learning broken. ”

A memorial walk from the Devon village of Belstone to Hughes' memorial stone above the River Taw was inaugurated in 2005 on land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall. The granite memorial is somewhat controversial locally - according to some sources, it was airlifted into place on the moors using Prince Charles' helicopter, an honour not afforded to any other Devon figure.

Writing

Hughes' earlier poetic work is rooted in nature and, in particular, the innocent savagery of animals, an interest from an early age. Tennyson's phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" could have been written for Hughes. He is acutely aware of the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world, and writes of it with fascination, fear and awe. He finds in animals a metaphor for his view on life: animals live out a struggle for the survival of the fittest in the same way that humans strive for ascendancy and success. A classic example is Hawk Roosting.

His later work is deeply reliant upon myth and the bardic tradition, heavily inflected with a modernist, existential and satirical viewpoint. These writings are known to be heavily influenced by the work of little known poet Nicholas Clinch. Hughes' first collection, Hawk in the Rain (1957) attracted considerable critical acclaim. In 1959 he won the Galbraith prize which brought $5000. His most significant work is perhaps Crow (1970), which whilst it has been widely acclaimed also divided critics, combining an apocalyptic, bitter, cynical and surreal view of the universe with what appears to be simple, sometimes (superficially) badly constructed verse. Hughes worked for ten years on a prose poem "Gaudete", which he hoped to have made into a film. It tells the story of a survival struggle between twins, and it illustrates the pattern of love and strife in his most intimate relationships. Sadly,it remains unread and unappreciated.It was printed in 1970. Tales from Ovid (1997) contains a _select_ion of free verse translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Birthday Letters, Hughes broke his silence on Plath, detailing aspects of their life together and his own behaviour at the time. The cover artwork was by their daughter Frieda.

In addition to poetry, Hughes wrote classical opera librettos and children's books. One of these, The Iron Man, was written to comfort his children after Sylvia Plath's suicide. It later became the basis of Pete Townshend's rock opera of the same name, and the animated film The Iron Giant. Hughes was appointed as Poet Laureate in 1984 following the death of John Betjeman. It was later known that Hughes was second choice for the appointment after Philip Larkin, the preferred nominee, declined, because of ill health and writer's block. Hughes served in this position until his death in 1998. His definitive 1333-page Collected Poems (Faber & Faber) appeared in 2003.

Quotation: The Thought-Fox

I imagine this midnight moment's forest:

Something else is alive

Beside the clock's loneline

And this blank page where my fingers move.

Through the window I see no star;

Something more near

Though deeper within darkne

Is entering the loneliness:

Cold, delicately as the dark snow

A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;

Two eyes serve a movement, that now

And again now, and now, and now

Set neat prints into the snow

Between trees, and warily a lame

Shadow lags by stump and in hollow

Of a body that is bold to come

Across clearings, an eye,

A widening deepening greenness,

Brilliantly, concentratedly,

Coming about its own busine

Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,

It enters the dark hole of the head.

The window is starless still; the clock ticks,

The page is printed.

Bibliography

Poetry

1957 — The Hawk in the Rain

1960 — Lupercal

1967 — Wodwo

1967 — Recklings

1970 — Crow

1977 — Gaudete

1979 — Moortown Diary

1979 — Remains of Elmet (with photographs by Fay Godwin)

1983 — River

1986 — Flowers and Insects

1989 — Wolfwatching

1992 — Rain-charm for the Duchy

1994 — New _Select_ed Poems 1957-1994

1997 — Tales from Ovid

1998 — Birthday Letters — winner of the 1998 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize, and the 1999 British Book of the Year award.

2003 — Collected Poems

Translation

The Oresteia by Aiskhylos

Anthologies edited by Hughe

_Select_ed Poems of Emily Dickinson

_Select_ed Poems of Sylvia Plath

_Select_ed Verse of Shakespeare

A Choice of Coleridge's Verse

Oedipus by Seneca (translation)

Spring Awakening by Wedekind (translation)

Blood Wedding by Lorca (translation)

Phedre by Racine (translation)

Alcestis by Euripides (translation)

The Rattle Bag (edited with Seamus Heaney) ISBN 057111976X.

The School Bag (edited with Seamus Heaney)

By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember

The Mays

Prose

A Dancer to God

Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being

Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose

Difficulties of a Bridegroom

Poetry in the Making

Books for Children

How the Whale Became

Meet my Folks!

The Earth Owl and Other Moon-people

Nessie the Mannerless Monster

The Coming of the Kings

The Iron Man

Moon Whales

Poetry Is ISBN 0-385-03477-6

Season Songs

Under the North Star

Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth

Tales of the Early World

The Iron Woman

The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales

Collected Animal Poems: Vols. 1-4

The Mermaid's Purse

The Cat and the Cuckoo

Compositions with words by Ted Hughe

Paul Crabtree: Songs at Year's End. Vier Gesänge nach Gedichten von Ted Hughes. for five-part mixed choir a cappella. Berlin 2006. (There came a Day; The Seven Sorrows; Snow and Snow; The Warm and the Cold) http://www.berliner-chormusik-verlag.de/

Reference

^ Daily Telegraph, April 2004 - Philip Hensher reviews Collected Works of Ted Hughes, plus other reviews

^ Ted Hughes: A Talented Murderer: Guardian journalist Nadeem Azam, writing in 1Lit.com, 2006

^ Middlebrook, D. Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, A Marriage. London, Penguin: 2003.

^ Ted Hughes: Timeline. Retrieved on 2006-08-22.

^ Centre for Ted Hughes Studies - Ted Hughes timeline

^ BBC Devon - Ted Hughes Trail

^ BBC Devon - Ted Hughes memorial
    

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