The Hawk in the Rain
work by Hughes
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discussed in biography
- In Ted Hughes: Marriage to Sylvia Plath, first poetry collections, and Plath’s death
…his first volume of verse, The Hawk in the Rain, was published. Other works soon followed, including the highly praised Lupercal (1960) and Selected Poems (1962, with Thom Gunn, a poet whose work is frequently associated with Hughes’s as marking a new turn in English verse). Poet and critic Robert…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Poetry
…beginning with his first collection, The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Hughes captured the ferocity, vitality, and splendor of the natural world. In works such as Crow (1970), he added a mythic dimension to his fascination with savagery (a fascination also apparent in the poetry Thom Gunn produced through the…
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