Collected Poems of Ted Hughes

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From the astonishing debut "Hawk in the Rain" (1957), to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes has been a giant on the literary landscape of the 20th century. This collection gathers five decades of his work, from his earliest magazine publications through all of his books - including such ground-breaking volumes as "Crow", "Tales from Ovid" and "Birthday Letters". The text also includes all pamphlet and privately printed editions, as well as those children's poems that Hughes himself marked out for an adult readership. This comprehensive account of Hughes's work stands testament to an original voice that as Seamus Heaney has described, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher".

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Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe