Websites
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A good bio, and a bibliography of all his major poetry collections.
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This page has a biography as well as great info on his nature poems (like "Big Poppy").
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This website is all about Ted Hughes, and clicking-through is actually a surprising amount of fun, not to mention informative!
Documents
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An interview with Ted Hughes from 1995.
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A loosely academic article about the nature of Puritanism vs. violence in one of Hughes's poems. Great for a model analysis!
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True scholarly article – difficult, but great in terms of what it means to be a "Romantic" poet. Also includes some thoughts by Hughes himself on the nature of poetry. [PDF]
Video
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Interviews, some readings – eight minutes of Hughes goodness.
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Mostly audio, but also has a couple of neat, creepy images that go by in mosaic. Hughes is the one reading – definitely worth a listen.
Images
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Books
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A new-ish biography by Elaine Feinstein that attempts to chronicle, gently, the life of the often antagonized and controversial Hughes.
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Another study of the life and works of Hughes, published in 2000 – with focus on the poetry more so than the life.
Movies & TV
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A dramatization of s the unsettling and complicated relationship between Ted Hughes and the poet Sylvia Plath. This movie stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Plath and Daniel Craig (a.k.a. James Bond) as Hughes.
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This animated film is very loosely based on a famous Hughes short story by the same name.