Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Ted Hughes was married to Sylvia Plath, the famous American poet and author of The Bell Jar. She committed suicide in 1963. (Source.)
Ted Hughes dealt with extreme tragedy: both Sylvia Plath and Hughes's lover, Assia Wevill, committed suicide—with Wevill murdering the daughter she had with Hughes in the process. (Years later, after Ted Hughes's own death, his son with Plath, Nicholas Hughes, would also commit suicide.) (Source.)
Plath fans, believing that Hughes was responsible for Sylvia Plath's death, actually picketed some of his readings in 1977. (Hughes had cheated on her with a family friend.) (Source.)
Ted Hughes was interested in practices like astrology and faith healing. (Source.)