HUGHES, Ted. New Selected Poems: 1957-1994. London: Faber and Faber. 1995.
8vo. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine; white pictorial dust jacket with illustration of flowers to front; pp. 3-332, [6]; very minimal, faint staining to front cover and top edge of spine; otherwise fine.
First edition with inscription to close friend Nick Grant; "For Nick/With Love/From Ted/April 1995".
This volume forms an extension of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems 1957-1981. Its vast selection showcases the depth of Hughes creative capacity with poems lifted from seminal works such as Crow (1970), published after a period of absence following the death of his wife, Sylvia Plath. In addition, also published are uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes’s career as well as some new work and some of his writing for children, such as What is the Truth? (1984).
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