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Summary
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes’s poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.
The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete texts of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales from Ovid as well as those children’s poems that Hughes felt crossed over into adult poetry. Most significantly it also includes small press publications and editions that, until now, remain uncollected and have never before been available to a general readership.
Ted Hughes – former Poet Laureate and the winner of the Whitbread and Forward Prizes – here demonstrates his presiding importance in English and twentieth-century poetry.
‘A guardian spirit of the land and language.’ Seamus Heaney
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Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and…
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