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Edward James Hughes is one of the most outstanding living British poets. In
1984 he was awarded the title of the nation's Poet Laureate. He came into
prominence in the late fifties and early sixties, having earned a reputation of a
prolific, original and skillful poet, which he maintained to the present day. Hughes
was born in 1930 in Yorkshire england into a family of a carpenter. After graduating from Grammar School he went to Cambridge to study English, but later changed
to Archaeology and Anthropology. At Cambridge he met Sylvia Plath, whom he
married in 1956. His first collection of poems Hawk in the Rain was published in
1957. The same year he made his first records of reading of some Yeats's poems and
one of his own for BBC Third Program. Shortly afterwards, the couple went to
live in America and stayed there until 1959. His next collection of poems Lupercal
(1960) was followed by two books for children Meet My Folks (1961) and Earth
Owl (1963). Selected......

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