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Born in August 17, 1930 / Died in October 28, 1998 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • The Hawk in the Rain, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
  • Pike, Gehenna Press (Northampton, MA), 1959.
  • Lupercal, Harper, 1960.
  • (With Thom Gunn) Selected Poems, Faber and Faber (London, England), 1962.
  • Animal Poems, Gilbertson (Crediton, Devon, England), 1967.
  • Gravestones, Exeter College of Art (Exeter, Devon, England), 1967, published as Poems, 1968.
  • I Said Goodbye to the Earth, Turret (London, England), 1969.
  • The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrer, Gilbertson (Crediton, Devon, England), 1970.
  • Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, Faber and Faber (London, England), 1970, Harper, 1971, revised edition, Faber and Faber, 1972, Harper, 1981.
  • Fighting for Jerusalem, Mid-NAG (Ashington, Northumberland, England), 1970.
  • Selected Poems, 1957-1967, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Faber and Faber, 1972, Harper, 1973.
  • Cave Birds, Scolar Press (London, England), 1975, enlarged edition published as Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Faber and Faber, 1978, Viking Press (New York, NY), 1979.
  • The Interrogator: A Titled Vulturess, Scolar Press (London, England), 1975.
  • Guadete, Harper, 1977.
  • Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence, photographs by Fay Godwin, Rainbow Press (London, England), 1979, second revised edition published as Elmet: Poems, Faber and Faber, 1994.
  • In the Black Chapel (poster), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England), 1979.
  • 1979-83 Woodpecker, Wolverine, Eagle, Mosquito, Tapir’s Saga, Wolf-Watching, Mice Are Funny Little Creatures, Weasels at Work, Fly Inspects (broadsides), Morrigu Press (North Tawton, Devon, England).
  • Moortown (also see below), Faber and Faber, 1979, Harper, 1980.
  • Sky-Furnace, painting by Roger Vick, Caricia Fine Arts (North Tawton, Devon, England), 1981.
  • A Primer of Birds: Poems, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press (Lurley, Devon, England), 1981.
  • Selected Poems: 1957-1981, Faber and Faber, 1982, enlarged edition published as New Selected Poems, Harper, 1982, expanded edition published as New Selected Poems, 1957-1994, Faber and Faber, 1995.
  • River, photographs by Peter Keen, Faber and Faber, 1983, Harper, 1984.
  • Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Knopf (New York, NY), 1986.
  • Tales of the Early World, Faber and Faber, 1988.
  • Wolfwatching, Faber and Faber, 1989.
  • Moortown Diary (originally published in Moortown), Faber and Faber, 1989.
  • Cappriccio, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press (Searsmont, ME), 1990.
  • Rain-Charm for the Duchy and Other Laureate Poems, Faber and Faber, 1992.
  • The Birthday Letters, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Selected Poems, 1957-1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
  • Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan,Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
  • Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid, Farrar, Straus, and Grioux, 2008.

Contributor to All around the Year by Michael Morpurgo, J. Murray, 1979.

POETRY (Limited Editions)

  • The Burning of the Brothel, Turret Books (London, England), 1966.
  • Recklings, Turret Books, 1966.
  • Scapegoats and Rabies: A Poem in Five Parts, Poet & Printer (Woodford Gree, Essex, England), 1967.
  • (With Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe) Poems, Rainbow Press (London, England), 1967, reprinted, 1971.
  • A Crow Hymn, Sceptre Press (Frensham, Surrey, England), 1970.
  • A Few Crows, Rougemont Press (Exeter, Devon, England), 1970.
  • Amulet, privately printed, 1970.
  • Four Crow Poems, privately printed, 1970.
  • Autumn Song, illustrated by Nina Carroll, Steane (Kettering, Northamptonshire, England), 1971.
  • Crow Wakes: Poems, Poet & Printer, 1971.
  • In The Little Girl’s Angel Gaze, Steam Press (London, England), 1972.
  • Prometheus on His Crag: 21 Poems, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Rainbow Press, 1973.
  • Eclipse, Sceptre Press (Knotting, Bedfordshire, England), 1976.
  • Sunstruck, Sceptre Press, 1977.
  • Chiasmadon, Charles Seluzicki (Baltimore, MD), 1977.
  • Orts, Rainbow Press, 1978.
  • Moortown Elegies, Rainbow Press, 1978.
  • A Solstice, Sceptre Press, 1978.
  • Calder Valley Poems, Rainbow Press, 1978.
  • Adam and the Sacred Nine, Rainbow Press, 1979.
  • Henry Williamson: A Tribute, Rainbow Press, 1979.
  • Four Tales Told by an Idiot, Sceptre Press, 1979.

PLAYS

  • The House of Aries (radio play), broadcast, 1960.
  • The Calm, produced in Boston, MA, 1961.
  • A Houseful of Women (radio play), broadcast, 1961.
  • The Wound (radio play; also see below), broadcast, 1962, revised version produced in London, 1972.
  • Difficulties of a Bridegroom (radio play), broadcast, 1963.
  • Epithalamium, produced in London, 1963.
  • Dogs (radio play), broadcast, 1964.
  • The House of Donkeys (radio play), broadcast, 1965.
  • The Head of Gold (radio play), broadcast, 1967.
  • The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (juvenile; contains Beauty and the Beast [broadcast, 1965; produced in London, 1971], Sean, the Fool [broadcast, 1968; produced in London, 1971], The Devil and the Cats [broadcast, 1968; produced in London, 1971], The Coming of the Kings [broadcast, 1964; televised, 1967; produced in London, 1972], and The Tiger’s Bones [broadcast, 1965]), Faber and Faber (London, England), 1970, revised edition (also contains Orpheus [broadcast, 1971; also see below]), published as The Tiger’s Bones and Other Plays for Children, illustrated by Alan E. Cober, Viking Press (New York, NY), 1975.
  • The Price of a Bride (juvenile; radio play), broadcast, 1966.
  • (Adapter) Seneca’s Oedipus (produced in London at National Theatre, 1968, in Los Angeles, 1973, in New York, 1977), Faber and Faber (London, England), 1969, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1972.
  • Orghast, produced in Persepolis, Iran, 1971.
  • Eat Crow, Rainbow Press (London, England), 1971.
  • The Iron Man (based on his juvenile book; televised, 1972; also see below), Faber and Faber (London, England), 1973.
  • Orpheus, Dramatic Publishing, 1973.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • Meet My Folks! (verse), illustrated by George Adamson, Faber and Faber (London, England), 1961, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1973, revised edition, Faber and Faber, 1987.
  • The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People (verse), Faber and Faber, 1963, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1964, published as Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Viking (New York, NY), 1976, revised edition published as Moon Whales, Faber and Faber, 1988.
  • How the Whale Became and Other Stories, Faber and Faber, 1963, revised edition, Atheneum, 1964, illustrated by Jackie Morris, Orchard Books (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Nessie, The Mannerless Monster (verse), illustrated by Gerald Rose, Faber and Faber, 1964, revised edition published as Nessie the Monster, illustrated by Jan Pyk, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1974.
  • The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights, Harper (New York, NY), 1968, revised edition published as The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights, Faber and Faber, 1968, revised edition, 1984, reprinted under original title, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Five Autumn Songs for Children’s Voices, illustrated by Phillida Gili, Gilbertson (Crediton, Devon, England), 1968.
  • Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Rainbow Press (London, England), 1974, revised edition published as Season Songs, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Viking Press, 1975, revised edition, Faber and Faber, 1987.
  • (And illustrator) Earth-Moon, Rainbow Press, 1976.
  • Moon-Bells and Other Poems, Chatto and Windus (London, England), 1978.
  • The Pig Organ; or, Pork with Perfect Pitch (opera), music by Richard Blackford, produced in London at the Round House, 1980.
  • Under the North Star, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Viking Press, , 1981.
  • (Editor, with Seamus Heaney) The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry, Faber and Faber, 1982.
  • What Is the Truth?: A Farmyard Fable for the Young, illustrated by R. J. Lloyd, Harper, 1984.
  • Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth, Faber and Faber, 1986.
  • The Cat and the Cuckoo: Collected Poems, Wykeham Press (Winchester, England), c. 1987, Roaring Brook Press (Brookfield, CT), 1988.
  • The Iron Woman, Dial (New York, NY), 1995.
  • The Mermaid’s Purse, illustrated by Flora McDonnell, Knopf, 2000.

EDITOR

  • (With Patricia Beer and Vernon Scannell) New Poems 1962, Hutchinson (London, England), 1962.
  • (With Thom Gunn) Five American Poets, Faber and Faber, 1963.
  • Here Today, Hutchinson, 1963.
  • (With Alwyn Hughes) Sylvia Plath, Ariel, Faber and Faber, 1965, Harper (New York, NY), 1966.
  • (And author of introduction) Keith Douglas, Selected Poems, Faber and Faber, 1964, Chilmark Press (New York, NY), 1965.
  • Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of Poems and Programmes from “Listening and Writing,” Faber and Faber, 1967, abridged edition published as Poetry Is, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1970.
  • (And author of introduction) Emily Dickinson, A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse, Faber and Faber, 1968.
  • (And translator, with Assia Gutmann) Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems, Cape Goliard Press (London, England), 1968, revised edition published as Poems, Harper, 1969.
  • (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.
  • Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Waters: Transitional Poems, Harper, 1971, published as Crossing the Waters, Faber and Faber, 1971.
  • Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees, Faber and Faber, 1971, reprinted, Harper, 1972.
  • (And translator, with János Csokits) János Pilinszky, Selected Poems, Carcanet (Manchester, England), 1976.
  • (And author of introduction) Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and Other Prose Writings, Faber and Faber, 1977, Harper, 1979.
  • (And translator, with Yehuda Amichai) Yehuda Amichai, Amen, Harper, 1977.
  • New Poetry 6, Hutchison, 1980.
  • (And author of introduction) Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems, Harper, 1981.
  • (With Seamus Heaney) Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition: 1980 Anthology, Kilnhurst, 1982.
  • Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems, Faber and Faber, 1985.
  • Winning Words (stories by children), Faber and Faber, 1991.
  • Dancer to God: Tributes to T. S. Eliot, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY), 1993.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Choice of Coleridge’s Verse, Faber and Faber, 1996.
  • (Consulting editor) Frances McCullough, editor, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 1998.

OTHER

  • Wodwo (includes play, The Wound), Harper, 1967.
  • (Translator, with Assia Gutmann) Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems, Cape Goliard Press (London, England), 1968; expanded edition published as Poems, Harper.
  • The Demon of Adachigahara (libretto), Oxford University Press, 1969.
  • (With others) Corgi Modern Poets in Focus I, edited by Dannie Abse, Corgi (London, England), 1971.
  • (Adapter) The Story of Vasco (libretto; based on a play by Georges Schehade; produced in London, 1974), Oxford University Press, 1974.
  • (Translator) Charles Simic and Mark Strand, editors, Another Republic, Ecco Press, 1977.
  • The Threshold (short story), Steam Press (London, England), 1979.
  • (Translator, with Yehuda Amichai) Yehuda Amichai, Time, Harper, 1979.
  • (Consulting editor and author of foreword) Frances McCullough, editor, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Dial, 1982.
  • (Translator, with János Csokits) János Pilinszky, The Desert of Love, Anvil Press Poetry, 1988.
  • (Translator, with Harold Schimmel and Assia Gutmann) The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai, Sheep Meadow Press, 1988.
  • Essential Shakespeare, Ecco Press, 1991.
  • Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992.
  • Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose (essays), edited by William Scammell, Faber and Faber, 1994, Picador USA (New York, NY), 1995.
  • The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales (stories), Faber and Faber, 1995.
  • Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories, Picador, 1995.
  • (Translator) Ovid, Tales from Ovid, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.
  • (Translator) Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
  • (Translator) Jean Racine, Phèdre, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
  • (Translator) Euripides, Euripides’ Alcestis, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.

Contributor to numerous anthologies, including Writers on Themselves, BBC Publications, 1964. Contributor to periodicals, including New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Spectator. Founding editor with Daniel Weissbrot of Modern Poetry in Translation, 1964-71. Hughes published several audio cassettes, particularly his works for children. His papers are contained in a collection at Emory University.