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.
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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.
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This is a very valuable book. It not only contains the uncollected work of the poet laureate, but includes poems out of Howls and Whispers of which only a limited number of copies were printed by the Gehena Press. As widower of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill (who both committed suicide), Hughes is able to express anger about what happened but also beauty when he finds himself in nature. Who else would come up with this picturesque phrase for butterflies: ?Wings wide open to tight-closed to flat open? ? you can see the motion of the insect in the sun! Or the ?hot stink of fox? that made Hughes famous. It is the kind of image use that you will find throughout this book. There are critics who believe that some of Hughes? work is ?appalling?, but who can blame them? Anger and unconscious elements do have ugly parts in them.
