![]() ![]() ![]() It is simply a beautiful match … Tales from Ovid … is the greatest poem of Classical inspiration probably since the Cantos. ‘Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy - and often all at the same time. The book received immediate acclaim in both England and America, where it won the Galbraith Prize. ![]() ‘A breathtaking book … To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence’ John Carey, Sunday Times The Hawk in the Rain is a collection of 40 poems by the British poet Ted Hughes.Published by Faber and Faber in 1957, it was Hughess first book of poetry. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including Wolfwatching (1989). Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes’s masterful versions of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, includes those of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe, as well as many others. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. ![]()
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