num_pages: 62
description: Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Marianne Moore, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and it was critically acclaimed by every reviewer from A. Alvarez to Edwin Muir. When Robin Skelton wrote, 'All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it', he was right to see in it the promise of what many now regard as the most important body of work by any poet of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Hawk in the Rain
titlecomplete: The Hawk in the Rain
genres: Classics, British Literature, European Literature, English Literature, Fiction, Poetry Plays, 20th Century, Animals, Poetry
ratings_count: 744
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Faber & Faber