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English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)

Also known as: Edward James Hughes, Тед Хьюз, تيد هيوز, 테드 휴스, テッド・ヒューズ, 泰德·休斯

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Simon Armitage1963–
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D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
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Animal and nature poems of instinctive vitality, a direct precursor to Hughes's bestiary. (AI reason)
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Gillian Clarke1937–
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Poetry of rural landscape, farm animals and elemental weather in a muscular lyric voice. (AI reason)
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