Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes 1st/1st HC/DJ (NY: Harper, 1957) 1st book! NICE!
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The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. 12mo, full cloth in DJ; 52pp. First edition, first printing of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK . Hughes's first book received immediate acclaim in both England and America, where it won the Galbraith Prize. Many of the book's poems imagine the real and symbolic lives of animals, including a fox, a jaguar, and the eponymous hawk. Other poems focus on erotic relationships, and on stories of the First World War, Hughes's father being a survivor of Gallipoli. Dedicated to Hughes's first wife Sylvia Plath, who considered her husband's poetry "the most rich and powerful since that of Yeats and Dylan Thomas." Plath typed out almost all of Hughes's poems and submitted them in this collection to a competition for a first book of poems being run by the Poetry Center of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York. In February 1957 the judges, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Marianne Moore, awarded the first prize (publication by Harper and Row) to Hughes. Marianne Moore wrote, "Hughes's talent is unmistakable, the work has focus, is aglow with feeling, with conscience; sensibility is awake, embodied in appropriate diction." Hughes rejected the Latinate and courtly iamb in favor of bludgeoning trochees and spondees, and his strong alliteration, onomatopoeia,
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