Hughes, Ted 1930-1998

The collected poems by Sylvia Plath ( Book )
30 editions published between 1981 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 3,399 libraries worldwide
Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.

Birthday letters by Ted Hughes ( Book )
50 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in 11 languages and held by 2,691 libraries worldwide
Love poems from a husband to a wife who committed suicide. The writer is poet laureate to Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Sylvie Plath, who was also a poet, gassed herself in 1963 after writing, "Dying is an art, like everything else." The couple are still the subject of controversy in England, some claiming he drove her to it, others that she was an impossible wife.

The journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath ( Book )
16 editions published between 1982 and 1999 in English and French and held by 2,168 libraries worldwide
Ces journaux, commencés à dix-huit ans et tenus jusqu'à la veille de sa mort, plongent le lecteur au coeur de la vie intérieure d'une femme qui lutta quotidiennement contre elle-même. A côté des impatiences de la collégienne ou des obsessions de l'écrivain paralysé, on trouve des pages inspirées qui sont à la source de nombreux poèmes.

The iron giant : a story in five nights by Ted Hughes ( Book )
73 editions published between 1967 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 1,665 libraries worldwide
The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster.

Crow: from the life and songs of the crow by Ted Hughes ( Book )
49 editions published between 1970 and 2001 in 8 languages and held by 1,591 libraries worldwide
One of the most important collections of the second half of the twentieth century. Crow is read here in its entirety and with narrative links not included in the published text.

Season songs by Ted Hughes ( Book )
12 editions published between 1975 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,502 libraries worldwide
A collection of twenty-eight poems grouped to represent the four seasons.

Tales from Ovid by Ovid ( Book )
15 editions published between 1995 and 2000 in English and held by 1,433 libraries worldwide
Poems from Ovid's The Metamorphoses in a new translation by a British poet. They include the tragedy, Echo and Narcissus, describing Narcissus' descent into madness as "Again and again he kissed / The lips that seemed to be rising to kiss his / But dissolved, as he touched them / Into a soft splash and a shiver of ripples."

Selected poems, 1957-1967 by Ted Hughes ( Book )
13 editions published between 1972 and 1991 in English and held by 1,331 libraries worldwide

River by Ted Hughes ( Book )
11 editions published between 1983 and 1999 in English and held by 1,279 libraries worldwide

Wolfwatching by Ted Hughes ( Book )
12 editions published between 1989 and 1999 in English and held by 1,173 libraries worldwide