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

Collected Poems

Ted Hughes

Hardcover | Pages: 1376 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 1223 Users | 35 Reviews

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

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Ratings: 4.1 From 1223 Users | 35 Reviews

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Plath's estranged husband and hated by the feminist world, but an amazing poet. I may even like him better than Plath herself had she never written Ariel.

After spending three years reading 1,200 pages of Hughes' collected poems, I have to say, I can't actually recommend them -- though a few of the individual books are definitely worth reading. The path to this curious situation began when I read Birthday Letters and some of his translations a few years back; I was quite impressed, and figured his earlier stuff was likely even better; so instead of buying 20-25 books individually, why not spend $10 and just get everything. It turns out that his

wow wow I am smitten and awestruck. A dear friend was reading some of the poems early saturday afternoon as I lay on his bed watching the light...This one. Tractor The tractor stands frozen an agonyTo think of. All nightSnow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering gale,A spill of molten ice, smoking snow,Pours into its steel.At white heat of numbness it standsIn the aimed hosing of ground-level fieriness. It defied flesh and won't start.Hands are like wounds alreadyInside armour gloves,

Great UK poetry of postwar 20th Century. It does feel like it too in my view. This is a great edition containing Hughes' early poetry, letters, et.al. Amazing collection of poetry. I am often amazed at Hughes' capacity to weaving together intertwined complexities to deliver beautiful poetry. The hardships of the author, writing at unforgiving hours, The fish and the pike, the moon and his tale of love and so much more. Worth a read for those of us who haven't yet read him. Outstanding author.

I rate this as one of my best buys of 2008. For your money (£17.99 for the paperback) you get an absolutely enormous tome of work. Even though I have read most of TH's poetry in the individual volumes, I feel that I never fully appreciated them until I read them again in this book.TH often revisited certain events in his poetry, usually after many years, expanding on themes and emotions. As this collection is so wonderfully edited (Faber) it is easy to link up poems on the same subject but

One day, I'm going to read Hughes' Collected Poems alongside Plath's. The section of most interest to me was "Birthday Letters". I found it the most accessible to start with, and steadily worked through it. Some of those are a punch in the gut! I like the one about when Sylvia had a fever and kept complaining that she was going to die, and the poem says something about if she keeps crying wolf, he won't know when things are really bad.

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.