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Birthday Letters

by Ted Hughes

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Ted Hughes''s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and ... Read more
Ted Hughes''s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes''s only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. ''To read [ Birthday Letters ] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends". It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.'' Seamus Heaney ''Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book.'' Andrew Motion" Less

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File size7.8 X 5.1 X 0.63 in
Print pages208
PublisherFaber & Faber Inc
Publication date January 12, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780571194735
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Ted Hughes
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Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 Aug 1930 – 28 Oct 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 and was followed by ma...

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