Description
A fierce and vividly imaginative collection, this volume explores the untamed energies of the natural world and the uneasy boundary between animal instinct and human consciousness. Its poems transform hawks, thrushes, otters, pigs, and other creatures into unsettling mirrors of violence, vitality, mortality, and power, while mythic and ritual undertones suggest a deeper longing to restore creative and spiritual forces to a sterile modern world. Marking a significant development in the poet’s career, the collection pares back earlier formal influences in favor of a leaner, more direct style charged with narrative momentum and startling imagery. It is a landmark work of postwar British poetry and a defining expression of Hughes’s enduring fascination with nature, imagination, and the primal dimensions of the psyche.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1960
63 pages
ISBN: 0571092462
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Details
First Published
1960
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Lupercal by Ted Hughes.