Crow (poetry)

Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, said: Crow holds a uniquely important place in Hughes oeuvre.

Hughes wrote Crow, mostly between 1966 and 1969, after a barren period following the death of Sylvia Plath.

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.

[1] The first Crow poems were inspired by several pen and ink drawings by the American artist Leonard Baskin.

[1] It is quoted briefly in the liner notes for "My Little Town" by Paul Simon,[2] and in the epigraph of Catspaw by Joan D.