The Hawk in the Rain
Ted Hughes
- Published
- in
- 1957,
- Hawk
- in
- the
- Rain
- was
- Ted
- Hughes's
- first
- collection
- of
- poems.
- It
- won
- the
- New
- York
- Poetry
- Centre
- First
- Publication
- Award,
- for
- which
- the
- judges
- were
- W.
- H.
- Auden,
- Stephen
- Spender
- and
- Marianne
- Moore,
- and
- the
- Somerset
- Maugham
- Award,
- and
- it
- was
- acclaimed
- by
- every
- reviewer
- from
- A.
- Alvarez
- to
- Edwin
- Muir.
- When
- Robin
- Skelton
- wrote,
- 'All
- looking
- for
- the
- emergence
- of
- a
- major
- poet
- must
- buy
- it',
- he
- was
- right
- to
- see
- in
- it
- the
- promise
- of
- what
- many
- now
- regard
- as
- the
- most
- important
- body
- of
- work
- by
- any
- poet
- of
- the
- twentieth century.
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