{"product_id":"selected-poems-1957-1994-9780374528645","title":"Selected Poems 1957-1994","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems from every phase of the career of a great poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Hawk in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, and its successor, \u003ci\u003eLupercal\u003c\/i\u003e, which introduced him as a major poet; from \u003ci\u003eWodwo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGaudete\u003c\/i\u003e, book-length poetic sequences in which the natural world is made into a thrilling and terror-filled analogue to our human one; and from six volumes of his maturity, here arranged thematically, in which the poet is at once rural chronicler and form-breaking modern artist. The volume also includes previously uncollected poems and eight poems later incorporated into \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, Hughes's meditation in verse on his marriage to Sylvia Plath, which became an international bestseller the year after his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe masterful British poet and critic \u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-98) wrote more than forty books, including, in the last decade of his life, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTales from Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e; verse adaptations of Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e, Racine's \u003ci\u003ePhedre\u003c\/i\u003e, and Euripedes' \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641381654802,"sku":"9780374528645","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b145651-82e2-4892-89a5-76441065dec1.jpg?v=1733013419","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-1957-1994-9780374528645","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}