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Poet:

Ted Hughes

b. 1930 d. 1998

Nationality/Ethnicity

British: Yorkshire, England

 

(Page numbers give are from Collected Poems [CP], (ed) Paul Keegan, Faber, 2003)

Individual Poems

Date first Published

CP page nos:

     

The Hawk in the Rain

Faber, 1957

 

Two Phases

 

30

Phaetons

 

33

The Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot

 

47-8

 

 

 

Lupercal

Faber, 1960

Everyman's Odyssey

 

59-60

Mayday on Holderness

 

60-1

February

 

61

Dick Straightup

 

63-5

Nicholas Ferrer

  69-70

Fire-Eater

  72

The Perfect Forms

 

82

Cleopatra to the Asp

  87

Lupercalia

 

87-9

 

 

 

Uncollected (1960-1967)

 

 

The Storm

10 November, 1960

93-6

To W. H. Auden

19 February, 1967

121-2

 

 

 

Recklings

Turret Books, 1966

 

Humanities

 

140

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow

Faber, 1970

 

Oedipus Crow

 

230

Crowego

 

240

Song for a Phallus

 

248-50

Truth Kills Everybody

 

252-3

Fragment of an Ancient Tablet

 

254

 

 

 

Uncollected (1971-73)

 

 

An Alchemy

Trust Publications, 1973

279-82

 

 

 

Prometheus On His Crag (A series of 21 short poems)

The Rainbow Press, 1973

285-303

 

 

 

Season Songs: Spring Summer Autumn Winter

The Rainbow Press, 1974

 

Summer

 

 

Swifts

 

315-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama

Faber, 1978

 

The Summoner

 

420

The Judge

 

422

The Plaintiff

 

423

The Accused

 

425

 

 

 

Moortown

Faber 1979

 

from Earth-Numb

 

 

Actaeon (Third section of Moortown)

 

558

Orts (24) Prospero and Sycorax

 

576-7

 

 

 

A Primer of Birds

Gehenna Press, 1981

 

Phoenix

 

614

 

 

 

Uncollected (1981-83)

 

 

Remembering Teheran

New Selected Poems (1957-1994), Faber, 1995

624-27

 

 

 

River

Faber, 1983

 

Under the Hill of Centurions

 

649

 

 

 

Flowers and Insects

Faber, 1986

 

Daffodils

 

712

 

 

 

Uncollected (1987-89)

 

 

Devon Riviera

Poetry Book Society, Anthology, 1986/87

729

A Full House

Poems for Shakespeare, July 1987

731-36

Kore

Poetry Book Society, Anthology, 1987/88

739

 

 

 

Wolfwatching

Faber 1989

 

Walt

 

772

 

 

 

Capriccio

Gehanna Press, 1990

 

Fanaticism

 

788-89

 

 

 

Rain-Charm For The Duchy

Faber, 1992

 

Rain-Charm for the Duchy

 

803-5

 

 

 

Uncollected (1992-97)

 

 

The Last of the 1st / 5th Lancashire Fusiliers

Guardian, 23 November, 1993

850-1

 

 

 

Tales From Ovid

Faber, 1997

865-10452

Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon

 

865-80

Phaethon

 

880-96

Callisto and Arcas

 

896-900

The Rape of Proserpina

 

901-11

Arethusa

 

911-14

Tiresias

 

914-15

Echo and Narcissus

 

915-23

Erisychthon

 

923-30

Semele

 

930-34

Peleus and Thetis

 

934-36

Actaeon

 

937-42

Myrrha

 

942-53

Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)

 

953-63

Pygmalion

 

964-68

Hercules and Dejanira

 

969-78

The Birth of Hercules

 

978-80

The Death of Cygnus

 

980-84

Arachne

 

984-91

Bacchus and Pentheus

 

991-1004

Midas

 

1004-12

Niobe

 

1012-21

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

 

1021-24

Tereus

 

1024-36

Pyramus and Thisbe

 

1036-42

 

 

 

Birthday Letters

Faber, 1998

 

Caryatids (1)

 

1045-46

Caryatids (2)

 

1046-47

The Earthenware Head

 

1079-80

Isis

 

1114-5

The Minotaur

 

1120

Setebos

 

1128-29

Telos

 

1157

Brasilia

 

1157-8

The Cast

 

1158-9

 

 

 

Howls & Whispers

Gehenna Press, 1998

 

The Hidden Orestes

 

1175-6

The Difference

 

1177

The Minotaur 2

 

1178