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Lifetimes
1943 Mexborough Grammar School 1946 First poems published in School magazine
1950 Enters Pembroke College, Cambridge to study English.
1953 drops English to study Archaeology and Anthropology
1954 Graduates from Cambridge
| 1956 |
Feb. 26 - Meets Sylvia Plath
March 25 - Second meeting with
Sylvia
June 16 - Married to Sylvia Plath
Nov ¡V Living in Cambridge
teaching English and Drama at local secondary modern school. Rose gardener, night-watchman, zoo
attendant,schoolteacher, reader for Arthur Rank. |
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1957 June - To Yorkshire. Then to USA
1958 Spring - Teaching at Amherst, University of Massachusetts
1959 Dec - Returns to England (Heptonstall, Yorkshire)
1961 Feb - Sylvia Plath miscarries
1962 Assia Wevill visit
1962 Sept - Ted and Sylvia agree to a
separation
| 1963 Feb - Sylvia Plath dies
1969 March 23 - Death of Assia and Shura
1970 Marriage to Carol Orchard
1972 Buys Moortown Farm (95 acres) |
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1974 Becomes president of Farms for City
Children charity
1979 Voted best poet writing in English in small New Poetry poll
1984 Dec - Appointed Poet Laureate
1993 Suffers from shingles, Nov - Living in Cambridge
| 1998 |
Jan - Birthday Letters tops best seller list
Oct - Birthday Letters wins Forward Prize for Poetry
Oct - Appointed member of the Queen's Order of Merit
Animated version of The Iron Giant being made by Warner Bros. |
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