![]() ![]() The first Crow poems were written in response to a request by American artist, Leonard Baskin, who had at the time produced several pen and ink drawings of crows. A central core group of poems in the work can be seen as an attack on Christianity. ![]() The book is a collection of poems about the character Crow, which borrows extensively from many world mythologies, notably both trickster and Christian mythology. He looked back on the years of work on Crow as a time of imaginative freedom and creative energy, which he felt that he never subsequently recovered. Hughes wrote Crow, mostly between 19, after a barren period following the death of Sylvia Plath. It was his most controversial work: a stylistic experiment which abandoned many of the attractive features of his earlier work, and an ideological challenge to both Christianity and humanism. It heralds the ambitious second phase of his work, lasting roughly from the late sixties to the late seventies, when he turned from direct engagement with the natural world to unified mythical narratives and sequences. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society journal in 2012, Neil Roberts, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, said:Ĭrow holds a uniquely important place in Hughes oeuvre. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber and Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. ![]()
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