Crow

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"Crow" is a dark, experimental poetry collection by Ted Hughes that follows the mythic figure of Crow through violent, surreal explorations of creation, suffering, and the human condition.

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Crow canonical 3
Crow (mythic figure) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Ted Hughes
centralTheme creation
death
existentialism
myth and mythology
religion and blasphemy
suffering
the human condition
violence
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception highly influential in late 20th-century British poetry
firstPublicationDate 1970-10-15
followedBy poetry collection "Gaudete"
form free verse
genre experimental poetry
modern poetry
poetry
hasIllustrations no
hasPart poem "Crow Blacker Than Ever"
poem "Crow Tyrannosaurus"
poem "Crow and Mama"
poem "Crow's Fall"
poem "Crow's First Lesson"
poem "Crow's Nerve Fails"
poem "Examination at the Womb-Door"
poem "Two Legends"
includedIn Ted Hughes's major works
influencedBy Christian symbolism
folklore
mythology
trickster archetype
language English
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacter Crow self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crow (mythic figure)
narrativeMode third-person
notableFor mythic narrative voice
radical reworking of religious motifs
violent imagery
publicationYear 1970
publisher Faber and Faber
setting mythic landscape
structure poetry sequence
style dark
mythic
surreal
targetAudience adult readers
tone bleak
ironic

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Ted Hughes notableWork Crow
Crow mainCharacter Crow self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crow (mythic figure)