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ISBN-10: 0374529655
ISBN-13: 9780374529659
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 07/01/2005
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 5.44" W, 2.35" H

Collected Poems

Editor: Paul Keegan

Paperback

Price: $28.00

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.

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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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Details

ISBN-10: 0374529655
ISBN-13: 9780374529659
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 07/01/2005
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 5.44" W, 2.35" H
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