Twenty-seven years ago today, on October 28, 1998 (September 9, 1998 in the lunar calendar), the famous contemporary British poet Ted Hughes passed away. Ted Hughes, the famous contemporary British poet, died on October 28, 1998 after suffering from cancer for 18 months. In his own country, he was one of the most widely read writers after World War II, a poet receiving a court salary and receiving an official laurel; But abroad, at least in China's cultural circles, people mostly notice him after learning about his relationship with the American confessional poetess Sylvia Plath. Those who like this British poet know that the reason why Ted Hughes was called Ted Hughes was entirely because Plath had an idea when sending one of his poems and signed such a name (his original name was Edward James Hughes). Therefore, after Hughes died, looking back on his character and achievements, one had to recall Plath's miserable life at the same time. Ted Hughes was born on August 17, 1930 in Missomroyd, West Yorkshire, North England. He studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and later transferred to archaeology and anthropology, graduating in 1954. In February 1956, he met Sylvia Plath at a celebration party for the founding of a literary journal. After graduating with honors from Smith College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1955 and receiving a poetry award, Plath went to the UK with a scholarship, while studying English at Nunham College, Cambridge. They both remembered the kiss at the party. Sylvia gave him a kiss in front of the girlfriend Ted had brought, leaving teeth marks and blood on his cheek; Ted said,"You are deliberately trying to give me the winning blow with your chipper vivacity. I can't remember/The rest of that night./ Except that I quietly left with my girlfriend./ In addition to her angry hissing in the doorway,/I was stunned by the questioning that your blue turban would be in my/clothing pocket,/and the swollen tooth marks like a circular dome/will be branded on the face that will last for months. /Seal me underneath forever." Four months later, they were married, the union of a talented poet. In 1957, his first collection of poems,"Eagle in the Rain", was published, and he won the New York "First Publication Award" that year. The award was awarded by the famous great poets of the United States and the United States, Spender, Auden and Marianne Moore, so it is very weighty and particularly eye-catching. In 1960, Hughes's second collection of poems,"The Sacrifice to the Fauna", was published and won the "Maugham Award", the literary prize of that year. Plath published her first collection of poems,"The Giant", in the same year. The following year, she wrote the autobiographical novel "The Bell Glass", which was published in 1963 under the pseudonym of "Victoria Lucas." The literary achievements of two talented poets during their lives together will undoubtedly benefit from each other's careful consideration, encouragement and inspiration. However, when two talented poets with strong personalities live together, there may naturally be difficulties that people can understand and understand. In October 1962, Hughes, who had a new lover, left behind their daughter, who had just turned two years old, and their son, who was under one year old, and left Plath, who was obviously in urgent need of care and help. Only more than three months later, on February 11, 1963, shortly before the publication of the second collection of poems "Ariel", which included many of her famous poems and brought her higher reputation, Plath, who said that "death is an art" and committed suicide once when she was 20 years old, put her young head on a gas stove covered with cotton cloth, ending her life, which had only stayed in the world for 30 years. From then on, Ted Hughes has become a target of criticism and abuse by readers who love and admire Plath and many feminist activists. Although some people also think that he is a patient husband who endured his unbearable wife until she could not bear it, there are not many people who hold this view, especially in 1969, when the "new love" he later cohabited with, Asia Verwell, also committed suicide to end her own life-and even the life of one of their younger daughters-. Curses such as "unlucky","betrayed heart", and "perfidious murderer", Following him like a shadow behind him. Hughes was on a poetry recitation trip to Australia and was greeted at the airport by protesters holding up placards accusing him of killing Plath; and the family name, spelled with the letters "HUGHES", was repeatedly chiseled off behind her name on Plath's tombstone. Hughes ignored all accusations from all parties and silently compiled and published all of Plath's posthumous manuscripts that could be published. But the destruction of Plath's last diary, no matter how explained, will not help repair his already badly damaged reputation. Until January 1998, Ted Hughes's "Birthday Letter" was published, and it immediately became a top page news on the front pages of London newspapers and a bestseller with almost complete praise. This is a collection of 88 poetic memoirs he has written over the past 30 years. In these poems, he eloquently describes his deep love for Plath in plain and even straightforward language, and writes about them in astonishing frankness and precise details. They met, fell in love, and even had sex for the first time: "You are slim, soft, slippery, like a fish./ You are the New World. My new continent./ You are America, I'm surprised. /Beautiful, beautiful America." Poet and critic Andrew Mosing titled a later widely cited review of his book: "Thunder of the Sky: This Book Will Live Forever", describing it as "the work of an unchanging, saddened, and deeply in love." He is one of the most important poets of the century, and this is his greatest work, as touching as the poems Browning wrote for (wife) Elizabeth Barrett, as poignant and touching as Hardy's (eulogy) Poetry: 1912-1913." Faced with such a work, Mosin said,"anyone who believes silence is proof of his stony heart will immediately realize how cruel they themselves are." Mohsin asserts that the Birthday Letters will survive, if not because of their biographical value, because they are masterpieces of language and image-making. This collection of poems not only pushed his literary reputation to the peak, but also to some extent dispelled the shadow cast over him by Plath's death. The critic Philip Howard, after describing the procedure by which the Poet Laureate came into being in his tribute, noted: "In this manner the office of Poet Laureate was conferred on a few poets of lasting value and on many second-rate talents chosen for fashion and political acceptability. It was already possible to judge Hughes as belonging to the former category. This outstanding poet was also a successful writer of stage plays, opera scripts, children's books, and an excellent poetry translator: "Translation of Modern Poetry" was the publication he founded, and "Ovid's Story"(Ovid: "Metamorphosis") published in 1997 also became a bestseller as soon as it was published, earning him a high reputation. Of course, what will definitely linger for a long time in literary history should also include the tragic marriage story between him and Plath, and a tragic "romance of passion and poetry."