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This paper explores how Ted Hughes’s poetry for children developed since its publication. It touches upon his effort from his earlier conventional rhyming verses, like; “Meet My Folks”! and “Nessie the Mannerless Monster”, to the developed free verse “animal poems” for older readers of “Season Songs”, “Under the North Star” and the farmyard fable “What is the Truth”? This study discusses that the later lyrical verses for youngsters where Hughes used to rhyme again, “The Cat and the Cuckoo” and The Mermaid’s Purse, embody an underrated last stage of Hughes’s effort for younger learners which is seldom argued by critics. The discussion reflects Hughes’s altering view to the notion of the “children’s poet” at various stages of his career. Throughout Hughes’s writing reference is made about the link between children and poetry, such as Poetry in the Making, and to differentiate progresses in his poetry for older people. Keywords: Ted Hughes, Modern Poetry, Rhyming Verses, Children’s Poetry & Free Verse.

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