Ted Hughes Obit
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Sarah Chayes reports from London that Britain's poet laureate, Ted Hughes, has died of cancer at the age of 68. Hughes, whose work often highlighted violence and cruelty in the natural world, has been compared to one of his laureate predecessors, Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was once married to the American writer Sylvia Plath. We'll hear his poem "Hawk Roosting."
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