Volume 50, Number 15 · October 9, 2003
Among the Creatures
By Sean O'Brien
Selected Poems, 1957-1994
by Ted Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 324 pp., $35.00; $15.00 (paper)
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) was a prolific writer, but in his last ten years he published a torrent of work—Tales from Ovid; translations of Lorca's Blood Wedding and Wedekind's Spring Awakening; Rain-Charm for the Duchy, which contains the verse he wrote as poet laureate; his immense critical book Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being; his selected short stories; his occasional prose; thematic editions of his earlier poetry; a large anthology, The School Bag, compiled with Seamus Heaney; a selection from Coleridge; and much else besides. The book which drew by far the most attention, though, was Birthday Letters, Hughes's poems to and about Sylvia Plath and their life together.
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