Ted Hughes (1930-1998) produced more than forty books of poetry, prose, drama, translation, and children's literature, including, in the last decade of his life, "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being"; "Tales from Ovid"; verse adaptations of Aeschylus's "Oresteia," Racine's "Phedre," and Euripides' "Alcestis"; and "Birthday Letters," He lived in Devonshire. Paul Keegan is poetry editor of Faber and Faber in London.