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==Selected works== ===Poetry collections=== {{div col}} * 1957 ''[[The Hawk in the Rain]]'' * 1960 ''Lupercal'' * 1967 ''Wodwo'' * 1970 ''[[Crow (poetry)|Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow]]'' * 1972 ''Selected Poems 1957–1967'' * 1975 ''Cave Birds'' * 1977 ''Gaudete'' * 1979 ''[[Remains of Elmet]]'' (with photographs by [[Fay Godwin]]) * 1979 ''[[Moortown Diary|Moortown]]'' * 1983 ''River'' * 1986 ''Flowers and Insects'' * 1989 ''[[Wolfwatching]]'' * 1992 ''[[Rain-charm for the Duchy]]'' * 1994 ''New Selected Poems 1957–1994'' * 1997 ''[[Tales from Ovid]]'' * 1998 ''[[Birthday Letters]]'' — winner of the 1998 [[Forward Poetry Prize]] for best collection, the 1998 [[T. S. Eliot Prize]], and the 1999 [[British Book of the Year]] award. * 2003 ''Collected Poems'' * 2016 ''A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems'' {{div col end}} ===Volumes of translation=== * ''[[Spring Awakening (play)|Spring Awakening]]'' by [[Frank Wedekind]] * ''[[Blood Wedding]]'' by [[Federico García Lorca]] * 1968 ''Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems'' by [[Yehuda Amichai]], Cape Goliard Press (London, England), revised edition published as Poems, Harper (New York, NY), 1969. * 1977 ''Amen'' by [[Yehuda Amichai]], Amen, Harper (New York, NY) * 1989 ''The Desert of Love: Selected Poems'' by [[János Pilinszky]], Anvil Press Poetry (Greenwich, UK)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetedhughessociety.org/janospilinsky.htm|title=On János Pilinszky at his website|access-date=23 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325064034/http://www.thetedhughessociety.org/janospilinsky.htm|archive-date=25 March 2015}}</ref> * 1997 ''Tales from Ovid'' by [[Ovid]] Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY) * 1999 ''The Oresteia'' by [[Aeschylus]], Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY) * 1999 ''[[Phèdre]]'' by [[Jean Racine]], Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY) * 1999 ''Alcestis'' by [[Euripides]], Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY) ===Anthologies edited by Hughes=== * {{cite book |title=Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-57-122343-5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571223435-emily-dickinson.html|title=Emily Dickinson|website=Public Store View}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-57-113586-8}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571135868-selected-poems-of-sylvia-plath.html|title=Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath|website=Public Store View}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-57-123379-3|title-link=William Shakespeare }}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571233793-a-choice-of-shakespeares-verse.html|title=A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse|website=Public Store View}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=A Choice of Coleridge's Verse |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-57-117604-5|title-link=Samuel Taylor Coleridge }}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571176045-a-choice-of-coleridges-verse.html|title=A Choice of Coleridge's Verse|website=Public Store View|accessdate=14 March 2021}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=The Rattle Bag |editor=With [[Seamus Heaney]] |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1982 |isbn=978-0-57-111976-9}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/25/poetry.highereducation|title=Seamus Heaney: Bags of enlightenment|author=Guardian Staff|newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 October 2003|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=The School Bag|editor=With [[Seamus Heaney]] |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-57-117750-9}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571225842-the-school-bag.html|title=The School Bag|website=Public Store View}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember|publisher= Faber and Faber |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-57-119263-2}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xlkQgAACAAJ|title=By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember|first=Ted|last=Hughes|date=19 February 1997|publisher=Faber & Faber|via=Google Books|isbn=9780571192632}}</ref> * 1965: ''[[Modern Poetry in Translation]]'' (literary magazine)<ref>{{cite web|title=Modern Poetry in Translation 50th Anniversary Study Day – Cambridge |url=http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/events/news/article/mpt-50th-anniversary-study-day-cambridge-2972.html|work=Polish Cultural Institute|access-date=3 April 2016}}</ref> * {{cite book |title=Here Today (anthology for children) |year=1963 |publisher=Hutchinson}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRyoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|title=Verse Writing in Schools: The Commonwealth and International Library: Pergamon Oxford English Series|first=Eric J.|last=Bolton|date=16 May 2014|publisher=Elsevier|via=Google Books|isbn=9781483145815}}</ref> ===Short story collection=== * 1995 ''The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales'', [[Faber and Faber]], London, England. * 1995 ''Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories'', [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], New York, NY. ===Prose=== * 1967 ''Poetry Is'', [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], New York. * 1967 ''Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of Poems and Programmes from "Listening and Writing"'', Faber and Faber, London. * 1992, revised and corrected 1993 ''Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being'', [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]], New York. * 1993 ''A Dancer to God: Tributes to T. S. Eliot''. (Ed) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York. * 1994 ''Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose'', (essay collection) Edited by William Scammell, Faber and Faber (London), Picador USA (New York) 1995. ===Books for children=== * 1961 ''Meet my Folks!'' (illustrated by [[George Worsley Adamson|George Adamson]]) * 1963 ''How the Whale Became'' (illustrated by [[George Worsley Adamson|George Adamson]]) * 1963 ''The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People'' (illustrated by R.A. Brandt) * 1964 ''Nessie the Mannerless Monster'' (illustrated by [[Gerald Rose]]) * 1967 ''Poetry in the Making''<ref>The book began as a series of 'talks' that Hughes wrote, and read, for the BBC Schools Broadcasting radio series "Listening and Writing". The five surviving programmes, 'Capturing Animals', 'Moon Creatures', 'Learning to Think', 'Writing about Landscape' and 'Meet my Folks!' are available on the BBC British Library CD: "Ted Hughes: Poetry in the Making". The Spoken Word. British Library. 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-7123-0554-9}}</ref> * 1968 ''[[The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Man]]'' (first illustrated by [[George Worsley Adamson|George Adamson]], in 1985 by [[Andrew Davidson (illustrator)|Andrew Davidson]] and in 2019 by [[Chris Mould (illustrator)|Chris Mould]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andrewdavidsonillustration.com/engravings/02.html|title=Andrew Davidson Illustration & Design|website=www.andrewdavidsonillustration.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/3989 |title=Original artwork from 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes on display in the Faculty of English, May 2018 |publisher=University of Cambridge: Faculty of English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/the-iron-man2/|title=The Iron Man|website=www.booktrust.org.uk}}</ref> * 1970 ''Coming of the Kings and Other Plays'' * 1976 ''Season Songs'' (illustrated by [[Leonard Baskin]]) * 1976 ''Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin) * 1978 ''Moon-Bells and Other Poems'' (illustrated by Felicity Roma Bowers) * 1981 ''Under the North Star (Ted Hughes book)|Under the North Star'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin) * 1984 ''What Is the Truth?'' (illustrated by R. J. Lloyd), for which Hughes won the [[Guardian Prize]]<ref name="relaunch">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"]. ''The Guardian'' 12 March 2001. Retrieved 1 August 2012.</ref><!-- about the book see http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3522065-what-is-the-truth -- not a reliable source but i have used the parenth. label (Animal Poems) above --> * 1986 ''Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth'' (illustrated by [[Chris Riddell]]) * 1987 ''The Cat and the Cuckoo'' (illustrated by R. J. Lloyd) * 1988 ''Tales of the Early World'' (illustrated by Andrew Davidson) * 1993 ''[[The Iron Woman]]'' (illustrated by [[Andrew Davidson (illustrator)|Andrew Davidson]]) * 1993 ''The Mermaid's Purse'' (illustrated by R. J. Lloyd, Sunstone Press) * 1995 ''Collected Animal Poems'': Vols. 1–4, Faber & Faber ===Plays=== * ''The House of Aries'' (radio play), broadcast, 1960. * ''The Calm'' produced in [[Boston]], 1961. * ''A Houseful of Women'' (radio play), broadcast, 1961. * ''The Wound'' (radio play), broadcast, 1962. * ''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'' (based on juvenile work). * ''The Price of a Bride'' (juvenile, radio play), broadcast, 1966. * Adapted [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]'s ''[[Oedipus (Seneca)|Oedipus]]'', produced in London, 1968). * ''[[Orghast]]'' (with [[Peter Brook]]), produced in [[Persepolis]], Iran, 1971. * ''Eat Crow'', Rainbow Press, London, England, 1971. * ''The Iron Man'', juvenile, televised, 1972. * ''Orpheus'', 1973. ===Limited editions=== * ''The Burning of the Brothel'' (Turret Books, 1966) * ''Recklings'' (Turret Books, 1967) * ''Scapegoats and Rabies'' (Poet & Printer, 1967) * ''Animal Poems'' (Richard Gilbertson, 1967) * ''A Crow Hymn'' (Sceptre Press, 1970) * ''The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar'' (Richard Gilbertson, 1970) * ''Crow Wakes'' (Poet & Printer, 1971) * ''Shakespeare's Poem'' (Lexham Press, 1971) * ''Eat Crow'' (Rainbow Press, 1971) * ''Prometheus on His Crag'' (Rainbow Press, 1973) * ''Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow'' (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Faber & Faber, 1973) * ''Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter'' (Rainbow Press,1974) * ''Cave Birds'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Scolar Press, 1975) * ''Earth-Moon'' (illustrated by Ted Hughes, published by Rainbow Press, 1976) * ''Eclipse'' (Sceptre Press, 1976) * ''Sunstruck'' (Sceptre Press, 1977) * ''A Solstice'' (Sceptre Press, 1978) * ''Orts'' (Rainbow Press, 1978) * ''Moortown Elegies ''(Rainbow Press, 1978) * ''The Threshold'' (illustrated by [[Ralph Steadman]], published by Steam Press, 1979) * ''Adam and the Sacred Nine'' (Rainbow Press, 1979) * ''Four Tales Told by an Idiot'' (Sceptre Press, 1979) * ''The Cat and the Cuckoo'' (illustrated by R.J. Lloyd, published by Sunstone Press, 1987) * ''A Primer of Birds: Poems'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1989) * ''Capriccio'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1990) * ''The Mermaid's Purse'' (illustrated by R.J. Lloyd, published by Sunstone Press, 1993) * ''Howls and Whispers'' (illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1998) Many of Ted Hughes's poems have been published as limited-edition [[broadside (printing)|broadsides]].<ref>Keith Sagar & Stephen Tabor, ''Ted Hughes: A bibliography 1946–1980'' Mansell Publishing, 1983</ref>
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