The Hawk in the Rain

Author: Hughes, Ted

Published by Faber & Faber, 1957
US ed.: Harper & Brothers, 1957

This is Ted Hughes's first collection of poems including such classics as "The Thought-Fox", "The Hawk in the Rain", "The Jaguar" and "Wind". Reading this book side by side with later collections makes apparent that this book presents a very young Hughes.

Contents:

• The Hawk in the Rain
• The Jaguar
• Macaw and Little Miss
• The Thought-Fox
• The Horses
• Famous Poet
• Song
• Parlour-Piece
• Secretary
• Soliloquy of a Misanthrope
• The Dove-Breeder
• Billet-Doux
• A Modest Proposal
• Incompatibilities
• September
• Fallgrief's Girl-Friends
• Two Phases
• The Decay of Vanity
• Fair Choice
• The Conversion of the Reverend Skinner
• Complaint
• Phaetons
• Egg-Head
• The Man Seeking Experience Enquire His Way of a Drop of Water
• Meeting
• Wind
• October Dawn
• Roarers in a Ring
• Vampire
• Childbirth
• The Hag
• Law in the Country of the Cats
• Invitation to the Dance
• The Casualty
• Bayonet Charge
• Griefs for Dead Soldiers
• Six Young Men
• Two Wise Generals
• The Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot
• The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar