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Ted Hughes: Poems with Classical referents

Poet: Ted Hughes                       Poems with Classical referents – listed by Volume Publication

(Page numbers given refer to Collected Poems [CP] (ed. Paul Keegan): Faber and Faber, 2003)

 

 

CP page no.

The Hawk in the Rain

Faber, 1957

 

Two Phases

 

30-31

Phaetons

 

33

The Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot

 

47-48

Lupercal

Faber, 1960

 

Everyman's Odyssey

 

59-60

Mayday on Holderness

 

60-61

February

 

61

Dick Straightup

 

63-65

Nicholas Ferrer

 

69-70

Urn Burial

 

71

Fire-Eater

 

72

The Perfect Forms

 

82

Cleopatra to the Asp

 

87

Lupercalia

 

87-9

Uncollected (1960-1967)

 

 

The Storm

10 November, 1960

93-6

To W. H. Auden

19 February, 1967

121-2

Recklings

Turret Books, 1966

 

Humanities

 

140-141

Wodwo

 

 

Gog (Parts 1 and III)

Faber & Faber, 1967

161-164

Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow

 Faber, 1970

 

Oedipus Crow

 

230

Crowego

 

240

Song for a Phallus

 

248-50

Truth Kills Everybody

 

252-3

Fragment of an Ancient Tablet

 

254

Uncollected (1971-73)

 

 

An Alchemy

Trust Publications, 1973

279-82

Prometheus On His Crag

The Rainbow Press, 1973

285-303

Season Songs: Spring Summer Autumn Winter

The Rainbow Press, 1974

 

Swifts

 

315-6

Remains of Elmet

London: Rainbow Press, 1979

 

Wycoller Hall

 

388-389

Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama

 Faber, 1978

 

The Summoner

 

420

The Judge

 

422

The Plaintiff

 

423

The Accused

 

425

Moortown

Faber, 1979

 

from Earth-Numb

 

 

Actaeon (Third section of Moortown)

 

558

Orts (24) Prospero and Sycorax

 

576-7

A Primer of Birds

Gehenna Press, 1981

 

Phoenix

 

614

New Selected Poems (1957-1994)

 Faber, 1995

 

Remembering Teheran

 

624-27

River

Faber, 1983

 

Under the Hill of Centurions

 

649

Flowers and Insects

Faber, 1986

 

Daffodils

 

711-713

Uncollected (1987-89)

 

 

Devon Riviera

Poetry Book Society, Anthology, 1986/87

729

A Full House

Poems for Shakespeare, July 1987

731-736

Kore

Poetry Book Society, Anthology, 1987/88

739

Wolfwatching

Faber, 1989

 

Walt: II The Atlantic

 

771-773

Capriccio

Gehanna Press, 1990

 

Fanaticism

 

788-89

Tales From Ovid

Faber, 1997

865-10452

Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon

 

865-80

Phaethon

 

880-96

Callisto and Arcas

 

896-900

The Rape of Proserpina

 

901-11

Arethusa

 

911-14

Tiresias

 

914-15

Echo and Narcissus

 

915-23

Erisychthon

 

923-30

Semele

 

930-34

Peleus and Thetis

 

934-36

Actaeon

 

937-42

Myrrha

 

942-53

Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)

 

953-63

Pygmalion

 

964-68

Hercules and Dejanira

 

969-78

The Birth of Hercules

 

978-80

The Death of Cygnus

 

980-84

Arachne

 

984-91

Bacchus and Pentheus

 

991-1004

Midas

 

1004-12

Niobe

 

1012-21

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

 

1021-24

Tereus

 

1024-36

Pyramus and Thisbe

 

1036-42

Birthday Letters

Faber, 1998

 

Caryatids (1)

 

1045-46

Caryatids (2)

 

1046-47

The Earthenware Head

 

1079-80

Isis

 

1114-5

The Minotaur

 

1120

The Afterbirth

 

1127-1128

Setebos

 

1128-29

Telos

 

1157

Brasilia

 

1157-8

The Cast

 

1158-9

Howls & Whispers

Gehenna Press, 1998

 

The Hidden Orestes

 

1175-6

The Difference

 

1177

The Minotaur 2

 

1178