num_pages: 1376
description: 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.
language: English
title: Collected Poems
titlecomplete: Collected Poems
genres: Classics, British Literature, Nature, Anthologies, Fiction, School, 20th Century, Literature, Animals, Poetry
ratings_count: 1337
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux