From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957), to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes has been a giant on the literary landscape of the 20th century. This collection gathers five decades of his work, from his earliest magazine publications through all of his books - including such ground-breaking volumes as Crow, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. as those children's poems that Hughes himself marked out for an adult readership. This comprehensive account of Hughes's work stands testament to an original voice that as ...
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From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957), to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes has been a giant on the literary landscape of the 20th century. This collection gathers five decades of his work, from his earliest magazine publications through all of his books - including such ground-breaking volumes as Crow, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. as those children's poems that Hughes himself marked out for an adult readership. This comprehensive account of Hughes's work stands testament to an original voice that as Seamus Heaney has described, was simply longer and deeper and rougher.
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This is a very valuable book. It not only contains the uncollected work of the poet laureate, but includes poems out of Howls and Whispers of which only a limited number of copies were printed by the Gehena Press. As widower of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill (who both committed suicide), Hughes is able to express anger about what happened but also beauty when he finds himself in nature. Who else would come up with this picturesque phrase for butterflies: ?Wings wide open to tight-closed to flat open? ? you can see the motion of the insect in the sun! Or the ?hot stink of fox? that made Hughes famous. It is the kind of image use that you will find throughout this book. There are critics who believe that some of Hughes? work is ?appalling?, but who can blame them? Anger and unconscious elements do have ugly parts in them.
