(© Harry Ogden, deceased)
Childhood home now and then: Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel towering over 1 Aspinall Street, in the roof of which is the skylight of the attic bedroom from which Ted looked out on Scout Rock.
Childhood home now and then: 1 Aspinall Street as it is today. (© Jonathan Bate)
Ted as a schoolboy. (© Stuart Clarke/Writer Pictures)
Siblings: Gerald, Olwyn, Ted. (Unidentified studio photographer, rephotographed by Jonathan Bate by kind permission of Olwyn Hughes)
Mirrored in the heart: Ted photographed by Olwyn. (© Olwyn Hughes)
Deep England overgrown: the pond of the pike. (© Steve Ely)
During National Service: mother and son. (© Stuart Clarke/Writer Pictures)
Family home in student days and thereafter: the Beacon as it is today. (© Jonathan Bate)
Sylvia Plath about to set of for Smith College in 1950 (with mother Aurelia and brother Warren). (© Giovanni Giovannetti/Effigie/Writer Pictures)
Cambridge days: in June 1952, at the May Ball with Carina. (© Edna Wholey)
Cambridge days: graduation in summer 1954. (© Stuart Clarke/Writer Pictures)
Cambridge days: the first and only edition of student poetry magazine Saint Botolph’s Review, at the launch party for which Ted first met Sylvia on Saturday 25 February 1956. (© Tom Bate)
Honeymoon: Sylvia and Ted photographed by Warren in Paris in 1956. (© Warren Plath, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
Honeymoon: Ted drawn by Sylvia. (© Estate of Sylvia Plath)
Newly married: Sylvia with typewriter on a Yorkshire drystone wall in September 1956. (© Elinor Klein, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
Newly married: studio portrait during residence in Eltisley Avenue, Cambridge, late in 1956. (© Peter Lofts Photography/Ramsey and Muspratt Archive)
In the bosom of the family: Sylvia with Ted’s family at the Beacon, William Hughes (left) and Uncle Walt (right) standing behind, Sylvia sitting next to Ted’s mother. (© Harry Ogden, deceased)
At work in the apartment on Willow Street, Boston, in 1958. (© Black Star, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
On the rocks at Winthrop, after visiting Otto Plath’s grave in May 1959. (© Everett Collection/REX)
Boston literary life: Robert Lowell, who described Ted’s poem ‘Pike’ as a masterpiece. (© British Library Board/Fay Godwin Archive)
Of to see America: Ted photographed by Sylvia, during a roadside picnic in Wisconsin in July 1959. (© Estate of Sylvia Plath, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
(© Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy of Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, via National Portrait Gallery, London)
Faber poets: Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender in June 1960, the year of the publication of Ted’s second collection of poetry, Lupercal. (© Mark Gerson/Bridgeman Images)
Court Green, North Tawton, discovered by Ted and Sylvia in 1961 (seen here photographed in 1972). (© David Willis McCullough, courtesy of University of Maryland)
Family: with baby Frieda in Knole Park, Kent, in 1960. (© Ann Davidow-Goodman (Mrs Hayes))
Family: Sylvia with Frieda and Nicholas among the daffodils at Court Green in 1962. (© Siv Arb/Writer Pictures)
Family: Ted with Frieda and Nicholas at Doonreaghan in 1966. (© Jane Bown/Camera Press)
Assia Wevill. (© David Wevill)
Susan Alliston. (© Richard Hollis)
Frieda on the doorstep of Court Green with Shura in push-chair. (© Celia Chaikin)
(© Jonathan Bate)
Lumb Bank, which Ted first tried to buy in 1963, and eventually bought in 1969, as it is today. (© Eddie Jacob Photography)
Elm trees and Morris Traveller at Court Green. (© David Willis McCullough, courtesy of University of Maryland)
Seneca’s Oedipus: Irene Worth as Jocasta and John Gielgud as Oedipus in the National Theatre production, directed by Peter Brook, at the Old Vic in 1968. (© TopFoto)
Brenda Hedden in 1965. (© Estate of Trevor Hedden, courtesy of Brenda Hedden)
The Iron Man as rock musical: Ted at the Young Vic with Pete Townshend of The Who in 1993. (© Alex Lentati/Associated Newspapers/REX)
(© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum, via National Portrait Gallery, London)
Orghast at Persepolis: Ted in Iran. (© Stuart Clarke/Writer Pictures)
Second marriage: Nick, Carol, Frieda and Ted on the moors. (© Stuart Clarke/Writer Pictures)
Ted and Carol. (© Bill Brandt Archive)
Ted and Jill. (courtesy of Jill Petchesky © Estate of Barbara Trentham)
Jennifer Rankin, Australian poet. (© Hazel de Berg Collection of Photographs, National Library of Australia)
Emma Tennant, Scottish novelist. (© Jane Bown/The Observer/TopFoto)
Mighty opposites: Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes at a party in June 1977. (© Mark Gerson/Bridgeman Images)
Top Withens: the alleged original of Wuthering Heights, to which Ted and Sylvia were driven by Uncle Walt in 1956 (here photographed by Fay Godwin in 1977 for Remains of Elmet). (© British Library Board/Fay Godwin Archive)
The Fisher King: Ted on the first day of trout-fishing season at Wistland Pond, Devon, April 1986. (© Nick Rogers/REX)
Frieda and Nicholas Hughes at the unveiling of the blue plaque in memory of their mother at 3 Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill, in 2000. (© Dr Renate Latimer, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
Letter Home: Great War memorial at Paddington railway station, a key influence on ‘Black Coat: Opus 131’. (© Robin McMorran)
With steelhead on the Dean River, British Columbia, 1995. (© Ehor Boyanowsky)
Birthday Letters revealed, January 1998. (© News UK, photographed by Tom Bate)
The memorial stone on Dartmoor, photographed in July 2015. (© Tom Bate)