The Hawk in the Rain

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And author of introduction) William Shakespeare, With Fairest Flowers While Summer Lasts: Poems from Shakespeare (also see below), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1971, published as A Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse, Faber and Faber, 1971, introduction published as Shakespeare’s Poem, Lexham Press (London, England), 1971.

More than fifty years after its publication, The Hawk in the Rainremains one of Ted Hughes’s most important, and most accomplished, collections. Many of Hughes’s best-known poems, such as ‘The Hawk in the Rain,’ ‘The Jaguar,’ ‘The Thought-Fox,’ and ‘Wind’—now staples of British poetry anthologies—first appeared here. These were the poems that established Hughes’s reputation as a poet of elemental sensibilities whose stressed, alliterative cadences conjured a primeval world of strength and struggle.Translator, with Assia Gutmann) Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems, Cape Goliard Press (London, England), 1968; expanded edition published as Poems, Harper. In this sonnet, man exists on a lower earth-bound level than the falcon. For Hughes, creatures are unadulterated encapsulated work; they, dislike man, vitiated by Spurious ethical quality or crippled by question. A falcon is a haw though a man has aspiration to be god-like and is along these lines for all time baffled. The falcon is always in his own component in any event, when he bites the dust an essential passing as he “meets the climate/Coming the incorrect way.”

Consulting editor and author of foreword) Frances McCullough, editor, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Dial, 1982.

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Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Knopf (New York, NY), 1986.