Early life

Career

Death

[[Nicholas Hughes]], the son of Hughes and Plath, committed suicide on 16 March 2009 after battling [[clinical depression|depression]].

Archive

Poetry collections

• 1957 The Hawk in the Rain
• 1960 Lupercal
• 1967 Wodwo
• 1970 From the Life and the Songs of the Crow
• 1972 Selected Poems 1957-1967
• 1975 Cave Birds
• 1977 Gaudete
• 1979 Remains of Elmet (with photographs by Fay Godwin)
• 1979 Moortown
• 1983 River
• 1986 Flowers and Insects
• 1989 Wolfwatching
• 1992 Rain-charm for the Duchy
• 1994 New Selected Poems 1957-1994
• 1997 Tales from Ovid
• 1998 Birthday Letters — winner of the 1998 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize, and the 1999 British Book of the Year award.
• 2003 Collected Poems

Volumes of translation

• Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind
• Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca
• 1977 Amen by Yehuda Amichai, Amen, Harper (New York, NY)
• 1968 Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems Cape Goliard Press (London, England), revised edition published as Poems, Harper (New York, NY), 1969.
• 1997 Tales from Ovid by Ovid Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)
• 1999 The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)
• 1999 Phèdre by Jean Racine, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY),
• 1999 Alcestis by Euripides, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY)

Anthologies edited by Hughes

• Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
• Selected Verse of Shakespeare
• A Choice of Coleridge's Verse
• The Rattle Bag (edited with Séamus Heaney)
• The School Bag (edited with Séamus Heaney)
• By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember
• The Mays

Short story collection

• 1995 The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales. Faber and Faber (London, England)
• 1995 Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories. Picador (New York, NY)

Prose

• 1967 Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of Poems and Programmes from "Listening and Writing. Faber (London) 1967.
• 1992 Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York)
• 1993 A Dancer to God Tributes to T. S. Eliot. (Editor) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York)
• 1994 Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. (Essay collection) . Edited by William Scammell, Faber (London). Picador USA (New York) 1995.

Books for children

• Meet my Folks!
• How the Whale Became
• The Earth Owl and Other Moon-People
• Nessie the Mannerless Monster
• 1970 Poetry Is
• The Iron Man
• Coming of the Kings and Other Plays
• Season Songs
• Moon-Whales
• Moon-Bells
• Under the North Star
• Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
• Tales of the Early World
• The Iron Woman
• The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales
• Collected Animal Poems: Vols. 1–4
• The Mermaid's Purse
• The Cat and the Cuckoo

Plays

• The House of Aries (radio play), broadcast, 1960.
• The Calm produced in Boston, MA, 1961.
• A Houseful of Women (radio play), broadcast, 1961.
• The Wound (radio play; also see below), broadcast, 1962
• Difficulties of a Bridegroom (radio play), broadcast, 1963.
• Epithalamium produced in London, 1963.
• Dogs (radio play), broadcast, 1964.
• The House of Donkeys (radio play), broadcast, 1965.
• The Head of Gold (radio play), broadcast, 1967.
• The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (juvenile)
• The Price of a Bride (juvenile; radio play), broadcast, 1966.
• Adapted Seneca's Oedipus (produced in London 1968)
• Orghast produced in Persepolis, Iran, 1971.
• Eat Crow Rainbow Press (London, England), 1971.
• The Iron Man (based on his juvenile book; televised, 1972).
• Orpheus 1973.

Limited editions

• The Burning of the Brothel (Turret Books, 1966)
• Recklings (Turret Books, 1967)
• Scapegoats and Rabies (Poet & Printer, 1967)
• Animal Poems (Richard Gilbertson, 1967)
• A Crow Hymn (Sceptre Press, 1970)
• The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar (Richard Gilbertson, 1970)
• Crow Wakes (Poet & Printer, 1971)
• Shakespeare's Poem (Lexham Press, 1971)
• Eat Crow (Rainbow Press, 1971)
• Prometheus on His Crag (Rainbow Press, 1973)
• Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Faber & Faber, 1973)
• Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Rainbow Press,1974)
• Cave Birds (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Scolar Press, 1975)
• Earth-Moon (Illustrated by Ted Hughes, published by Rainbow Press, 1976)
• Eclipse (Sceptre Press, 1976)
• Sunstruck (Sceptre Press, 1977)
• A Solstice (Sceptre Press, 1978)
• Orts (Rainbow Press, 1978)
• Moortown Elegies (Rainbow Press, 1978)
• The Threshold (Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, published by Steam Press, 1979)
• Adam and the Sacred Nine (Rainbow Press, 1979)
• Four Tales Told by an Idiot (Sceptre Press, 1979)
• The Cat and the Cuckoo (Illustrated by R.J. Lloyd, published by Sunstone Press, 1987)
• A Primer of Birds: Poems (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1989)
• Capriccio (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1990)
• The Mermaid's Purse (Illustrated by R.J. Lloyd, published by Sunstone Press, 1993)
• Howls and Whispers (Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published by Gehenna Press, 1998)

• The Epic Poise: a celebration of Ted Hughes, edited by Nick Gammage, Faber and Faber, 1999.
• Ted Hughes: the life of a poet, by Elaine Feinstein, W.W. Norton, 2001.
• Bound to Please, by Michael Dirda pp 17–21, W.W. Norton, 2005.
• Ted Hughes: a literary life, by Neil Roberts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.