His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth a love of nature, conservation, and ecology of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes. Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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