Collected Poems

All the poems of a great 20th-century poet From the astonishing debutHawk in the Rain(1957) toBirthday 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 volumesCrow(1970),Gaudete(1977), andTales 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.Hughes, Ted is the author of 'Collected Poems', published 2003 under ISBN 9780374125387 and ISBN 0374125384.