This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has
at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural
world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning
collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle
for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain's Poet Laureate
in 1984 until his death in 1998. Including many of Hughes'
best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and
'Wind' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - Hawk in the
Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the
twentieth-century's greatest poets.
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A good debut collection
Sat, 18 Jul 2015 | Review
by: Judy Croome | @judy_croome
As a debut collection, and the first poems I've read written by Ted Hughes, my enjoyment of the poems was erratic. Some poems were brilliant as they stood ("Song"; "Incompatibilities"; "Law in the Country of Cats" and "The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar"); others appeared to have less emotion and more intellect, which made them somewhat obscure to me. I felt a flavour of TS Eliot in these poems when first dipping into the volume, and wasn't surprised by the interesting tidbit in the front of the book, which included a copy of TS Eliot's response to Faber & Faber's Charles Montieth's enquiry about Hughes. (The edition I read is not the one listed here, but ISBN 978-0-571-32281-7)
Overall, the poems were too bleak, violent and obviously carefully composed for me to be swept away by them. However, as a debut collection the poems did enough to make me want to read more of Ted Hughes work as he became a mature, more experienced poet.
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