Today! Ted Hughes, poet and British Poet Laureate (1984-98), died in 1998 at the age of 68.
Ted Hughes, born Edward J. Hughes and died on October 28, 1998 in London, was an English poet and English Poet Laurate (1984-1998) whose most characteristic verse is devoid of sentimentality, emphasising the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.
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