Collected Poems - Softcover

Hughes, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374529655 ISBN 13: 9780374529659

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

Book Description:

Ted Hughes's Collected Poems is the definitive collection of one of the most important bodies of work in twentieth-century poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0374529655
• ISBN 13: 9780374529659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1376
• Editor: Keegan Paul