A Ted Hughes Bestiary by Hughes, Ted -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Introduction Four Prose Excerpts from The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

The Hawk in the Rain The Jaguar The Thought-Fox The Horses Meeting

from Lupercal (1960)

February Esther’s Tomcat Hawk Roosting The Bull Moses View of a Pig An Otter Thrushes Pike

from Recklings (1966)

Stealing Trout on a May Morning The Lake

from Wodwo (1967)

Thistles Ghost Crabs Second Glance at a Jaguar Song of a Rat Skylarks The Howling of Wolves Gnat-Psalm Wodwo

from Crow (1970)

That Moment Crow and the Birds Crow Tyrannosaurus Two Legends Lineage Examination at the Womb-Door Crow’s Fall Owl’s Song Crow’s Elephant Totem Song Littleblood

from Prometheus on His Crag (1973)

‘Prometheus … Pestered by birds roosting and defecating’ ‘Prometheus … Began to admire the vulture’

Uncollected (1975)

The Lamentable History of the Human Calf

from Season Songs (1976)

Swifts Mackerel Song Work and Play A Cranefly in September The Stag

from Gaudete (1977)

‘Calves harshly parted from their mamas’

Uncollected (1978)

A Solstice

from Orts (1978)

‘The white shark’

from Cave Birds (1978)

Only a Little Sleep, a Little Slumber The Owl Flower The Risen

from Adam and the Sacred Nine (1979)

And the Falcon came The Skylark came The Wild Duck The Swift comes the swift The Unknown Wren And Owl The Dove Came The Crow came to Adam And the Phoenix has come

from Remains of Elmet (1979)

Curlews The Weasels We Smoked out of the Bank The Canal’s Drowning Black The Long Tunnel Ceiling Cock-Crows

from Moortown Diary (1979)

Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight Foxhunt Roe-deer February 17th Coming down through Somerset While she chews sideways Sheep

from Earth-Numb (1979)

The Lovepet

Uncollected (1980)

Mosquito

from A Primer of Birds (1981)

Cuckoo Swans Buzzard Snipe The Hen Mallard Evening Thrush Treecreeper A Dove

Uncollected (1982–3)

Sing the Rat Swallows

from River (1983)

Under the Hill of Centurions Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan That Morning A Rival Performance An Eel October Salmon Visitation

Uncollected (1984)

The Hare i–iii

from Flowers and Insects (1986)

Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies In the Likeness of a Grasshopper

from Wolfwatching (1989)

A Sparrow Hawk Wolfwatching

from Tales from Ovid (1997)

from Arachne

from Birthday Letters (1998)

The Owl The Chipmunk Epiphany

from Selected Translations (2006)

from The Boy Changed into a Stag Cries Out at the Gate of Secrets The Prophet

Acknowledgements Also by Ted Hughes A Note About the Author and Editor Newsletter Sign-up Contents Copyright

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