Selected poems, 1957-1994 / Ted Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Contributor:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Summary:

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 many previously uncollected poems and eight poems later incorporated into "Birthday Letters, Hughes's meditation in verse on his marriage to Sylvia Plath, which became a bestseller the year after his death.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1995 by Faber and Faber Ltd., Great Britain, as New selected poems, 1957-1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes indexes.

Related Work:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Poems. Selections

ISBN:

0374258759

0374528640

OCLC:

49356022