Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet 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 .