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    Ted Hughes was a British poet whose collection The Hawk in the Rain won critical acclaim and a prize in 1959. His most significant work Crow combined apocalyptic, cynical, and surreal views of the universe in a cosmology focused on the totemic crow. Hughes was influenced by writers like Blake, Donne, Hopkins, and Eliot as well as Schopenhauer and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. He served as Poet Laureate of the UK from 1984 until his death in 1998, and wrote additional works including Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being.

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    Ted Hughes was a British poet whose collection The Hawk in the Rain won critical acclaim and a prize in 1959. His most significant work Crow combined apocalyptic, cynical, and surreal views of the universe in a cosmology focused on the totemic crow. Hughes was influenced by writers like Blake, Donne, Hopkins, and Eliot as well as Schopenhauer and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. He served as Poet Laureate of the UK from 1984 until his death in 1998, and wrote additional works including Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being.

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    Ted Hughes was a British poet whose collection The Hawk in the Rain won critical acclaim and a prize in 1959. His most significant work Crow combined apocalyptic, cynical, and surreal views of the universe in a cosmology focused on the totemic crow. Hughes was influenced by writers like Blake, Donne, Hopkins, and Eliot as well as Schopenhauer and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. He served as Poet Laureate of the UK from 1984 until his death in 1998, and wrote additional works including Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being.

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    Hughes's poetry, including his collection The Hawk in the Rain (1957), was

    critically acclaimed and won the Galbraith prize in 1959.


    His most significant work, Crow (1970), was a cosmology of the totemic Crow,
    combining apocalyptic, bitter, cynical, and surreal views of the universe.
    Hughes cited influences like Blake, Donne, Hopkins, Eliot, Schopenhauer, Robert
    Graves's The White Goddess, and The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
    He also wrote a prose poem, "Gaudete," which he hoped to make into a film.
    Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and served until his death in 1998.
    His works include Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Rain Charm for
    the Duchy, and Tales from Ovid.

    links used:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes#Work
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Hughes
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ted-hughes
    https://literarydevices.net/ted-hughes/
    https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/english-literature/poets/ted-hughes/

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