Collected Poems

Collected Poems

<p><b>All the poems of a great 20th-century poet.</b></p><p>From the astonishing debut <i>Hawk in the Rain</i> (1957) to <i>Birthday Letters</i> (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 <i>Crow</i> (1970), <i>Gaudete</i>(1977), and <i>Tales from Ovid</i> (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.</p>