View Ted Hughes Collected Poems For Children Pictures. Read 13 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Ted hughes is consistently described as one of the twentieth century's greatest english poets.

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Where should the poetry fan begin when seeking to explore his work? Containing over 250 poems hughes wrote over his lifetime, it begins with poems written for the very young and concludes with those written for teens. The publication of ted hughes's collected poems shows both his genius and his failings, says sean o'brien.

The child is father to the man.

Hughes was the first laureate to create great poetry in the laureate vein since tennyson. The book is illustrated by raymond briggs who has produced some of the most cherished picture books of our time including father christmas, fungus the bogeyman and my favourite, the snowman. This collection brings together the poems ted hughes wrote for children throughout his life. Taken from 40 years of occasional story writing, the amazing descriptive.