Selected Poems 1957-1994 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374528645)

Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet

This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, Lupercal, which introduced him as a major poet; from Wodwo, Crow and Gaudete, book-length poetic sequences in which the natural world is made into a thrilling and terror-filled analogue to our human one; and from six volumes of his maturity, here arranged thematically, in which the poet is at once rural chronicler and form-breaking modern artist. The volume also includes previously uncollected poems and eight poems later incorporated into Birthday Letters, Hughes's meditation in verse on his marriage to Sylvia Plath, which became an international bestseller the year after his death.

Author: Ted Hughes
ISBN-10: 0374528640
ISBN-13: 9780374528645
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/01/2002 pg. 8
New York Times 12/08/2002 pg. 64
New York Review of Books 10/09/2003 pg. 38