Collected Poems

by Ted Hughes, Paul Keegan (Editor)

Overview

All the poems of a great 20th-century poet.

From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and those children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium-gatherum of Hughes's work is animated throughout by a voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than those of his contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529659
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	07/13/2005
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	1376
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.30(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

TED HUGHES (1930-1998) published numerous volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1985 and was appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1984.

Paul Keegan is poetry editor of Faber and Faber in London.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

EARLY POEMS AND JUVENILIA (1946-57)

THE HAWK IN THE RAIN (1957)

UNCOLLECTED (1957-59)

LUPERCAL (1960)

UNCOLLECTED (1960-67)

from RECKLINGS (1966)

from WODWO (1967)

UNCOLLECTED (1967-70)

[CROW]

FOUR CROW POEMS (1970)

A FEW CROWS (1970)

from CROW: FROM THE LIFE AND SONGS OF THE CROW (1970)

from CROW WAKES (1971)

from POEMS. RUTH FAINLIGHT, TED HUGHES, ALAN SILLITOE

UNCOLLECTED (1971-73)

PROMETHEUS ON HIS CRAG (1973)

UNCOLLECTED (1974-75)

SEASON SONGS (1976)

UNCOLLECTED (1976-77)

from GAUDETE (1977)

UNCOLLECTED (1977-78)

from ORTS (1978)

CAVE BIRDS (1978)

ADAM AND THE SACRED NINE (1979)

REMAINS OF ELMET (1979)

UNCOLLECTED (1979)

MOORTOWN DIARY (1979)

2from EARTH-NUMB (1979)

UNCOLLECTED (1980-81)

from A PRIMER OF BIRDS (1981)

UNCOLLECTED (1981-83)

from RIVER (1983)

UNCOLLECTED (1983-86)

from FLOWERS AND INSECTS (1986)

UNCOLLECTED (1987-89)

from WOLFWATCHING (1989)

CAPRICCIO (1990)

RAIN-CHARM FOR THE DUCHY (1992)

UNCOLLECTED (1992-97)

TALES FROM OVID (1997)

BIRTHDAY LETTERS (1998)

HOWLS & WHISPERS (1998)

UNCOLLECTED (1997-98)

Appendix One: Notes and Prefaces by Ted Hughes

Appendix Two: Variant Titles

Appendix Three: Variant Lists of Contents

Notes

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

Editorial Reviews

"The chronological arrangement of the poems allows the reader to follow the course of Hughes's career-long political engagement, though probably Hughes will mainly be read for the clarity of his language, his wise humor and his insight into the human condition." - Publishers Weekly

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