Ted Hughes's New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 are implicitly organized in a cosmology

The poetic oe uvre of Ted Hughes, of which the New Selected Poems 1957-1994 are the condensed form, is implicitly organized in a cosmology. The poet h as never expressed it in a direct way, except, partly, in the work he once did with Peter Brook for Orghast. By making use of some of the information published by A.C.H. Smith in his book on the subject, it is possible to ske tch the outlines of a theological system that is the silent architecture of Hughes' poetry, with particular reference to individual poems.