Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- Contents -- A Note on the Author -- Part 1: The context of New Selected Poems -- 1.1 General Introduction -- 1.2 Hughes's early life -- 1.3 Early writing -- 1.4 Cambridge and the Burnt Fox -- 1.5 Sylvia Plath -- 1.6 Crow and more tragedy -- 1.7 Persecution -- 1.8 The Poet Laureate -- Part 2: Artistic strategies and influences -- 2.1 'Dialect' -- 2.2 Shakespeare, Romantics and Moderns -- 2.3 The White Goddess -- 2.4 The influence of Sylvia Plath -- 2.5 Shamanism -- 2.6 East European Poetry -- 2.7 Trickster Mythology -- 2.8 Confessional poetry -- Part 3: Reading New Selected Poems -- 3.1 The Hawk in the Rain -- 3.2 Lupercal -- 3.3 Wodwo -- 3.4 Crow -- 3.5 Cave Birds -- 3.6 Season Songs -- 3.7 Gaudete -- 3.8 Remains of Elmet -- 3.9 Moortown Diary -- 3.10 River -- 3.11 Wolfwatching -- 3.12 Uncollected Poems -- Part 4: Reception -- Part 5: Bibliography -- 5.1 Works by Ted Hughes -- 5.2 Web Sites -- 5.3 Criticism and Biography -- 5.4 Other Works -- Part 6: Appendices -- Appendix 1: Wodwo -- Appendix 2: Vacanas -- Humanities Insights.