The Hawk In The Rain Av Ted Hughes

<p>This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, <i>Hawk in the Rain</i> is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become Britain''s Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998.<br><br>Including many of Hughes'' best-known poems, such as ''The Jaguar'', ''The Thought-Fox'' and ''Wind'' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - <i>Hawk in the Rain</i> is the foundation of Hughes'' reputation as one of the twentieth-century''s greatest poets.</p>