Ted Hughes: The Rape of Proserpina

Ted Hughes

• About the poet
• Series / Collections / Collected Works
• Poems with Classical referents
  • A Full House
  • Actaeon (Third section of Moortown)
  • Actaeon
  • An Alchemy
  • Arachne
  • Arethusa
  • Bacchus and Pentheus
  • Brasilia
  • Callisto and Arcas
  • Caryatids (1)
  • Caryatids (2)
  • Cleopatra to the Asp
  • Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon
  • Crowego
  • Daffodils
  • Devon Riviera
  • Dick Straightup
  • Echo and Narcissus
  • Erisychthon
  • Everyman's Odyssey
  • Fanaticism
  • February
  • Fire-Eater
  • Fragment of an Ancient Tablet
  • Gog (Parts 1 and III)
  • Hercules and Dejanira
  • Humanities
  • Isis
  • Kore
  • Lupercalia
  • Mayday on Holderness
  • Midas
  • Myrrha
  • Nicholas Ferrer
  • Niobe
  • Oedipus Crow
  • Orts (24) Prospero and Sycorax
  • Peleus and Thetis
  • Phaethon
  • Phaetons
  • Phoenix
  • Prometheus On His Crag
  • Pygmalion
  • Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Remembering Teheran
  • Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
  • Semele
  • Setebos
  • Song for a Phallus
  • Swifts
  • Tales From Ovid
  • Telos
  • Tereus
  • The Accused
  • The Afterbirth
  • The Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot
  • The Birth of Hercules
  • The Cast
  • The Death of Cygnus
  • The Difference
  • The Earthenware Head
  • The Hidden Orestes
  • The Judge
  • The Minotaur
  • The Minotaur 2
  • The Perfect Forms
  • The Plaintiff
  • The Rape of Proserpina
  • The Storm
  • The Summoner
  • Tiresias
  • To W. H. Auden
  • Truth Kills Everybody
  • Two Phases
  • Under the Hill of Centurions
  • Urn Burial
  • Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)
  • Walt: II The Atlantic
  • Wycoller Hall
• Plays with Classical referents
• Selected bibliography