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Title	:	Collected Poems
Author	:	Ted Hughes
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1376 pages
Published	:	November 15th 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Poetry. Literature. European Literature. British Literature

Collected Poems Hardcover | Pages: 1376 pages

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All the poems of a great 20th-century poet

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, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales 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 poetry is animated throughout by a voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than those of his contemporaries.

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Original Title:	Collected Poems
ISBN:	0374125384 (ISBN13: 9780374125387)

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EnduringSomething in you that was not meant to die:A voice we never knew we hadUttering out of the bowels of earthIts taut, Yorkshire vowels,Its own sturdy music.Uncompromising in your ambivalencesHalf nihilist, half priest,Carrying natures indifference like a crucifix;Surviving the hell of your passionsAnd leaving us words so charged, So lovingly held:Like sacraments through which we access Ancient futures.this was my elegy for TH after his death



THE THOUGHT-FOXI imagine this midnight moments forest: Something else is alive Beside the clocks loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something more nearThough deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness: Cold, delicately as the dark snow, A foxs nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and now Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a

I'm astonished every time I settle down with this book. Hughes is my favorite English postwar poet (well, unless you count Thom Gunn). For a couple decades I was prejudiced against him because I read The Savage God at an impressionable age. Then one afternoon I picked up a slim volume of his selected poetry in a Vancouver bookstore. I read his Crow poems; I was transfixed right there in the aisle of Chapters, blocking polite Canadians from browsing. I was floored.Crow's First LessonGod tried

Ted Hughes, author of The Iron Man (later to changed to The Iron Giant), has easily become one of my favorite poets of all time. He takes such a close, hard look at life, and speaks so very honestly and bravely. He does exactly what a poet ought to be doing: speaking passionately, imaginatively, complexly, uniquely, and relatably about life. He doesnt relish being misunderstood and passed over by the masses, as some poets do. I can keep up with much of it, but not so easily that I get bored.

don't listen to those who tell you Plath was better. Hughes was the ultimate poet of the duo, and of his time. OK, he had a harsh personality, but we're supposed to judge the work, not the person.

Reading Ted Hughes' Collected Poems (and reading some of the nearly 1,400 pages a little more closely than others), one needs to consider the breadth of Hughes' writing life, along with the enormity of his writing persona, in attempting to bring meaning to the vastness of his writing life. For me personally, the Hughes poems of Wodwo (1967), Crow (1970), and Remains of Elmet (1979) have long been my favorites: poems of the earth, the grey hills of middle England, ancient ruins, grazing farm