The Hawk in the Rain The Cantos It’s an act of generous

It’s an act of generous communication to allow a poem to speak a reader like this: to show them that the most primordial aspects of their cognition are shared and understood

Swinburne and his companion Theodore Watts-Dunton

persoonlijke keuze

lost love and

in jezelf en in verhoudingen tot anderen

The Hawk in the Rain The Cantos It’s an act of generousTed Hughes Published in 1957, The Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, 'All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it', he was right to see in it the promise of what many now regard as the most important body of work by any poet of the twentieth century.