| #133524 in Books | Ted Hughes | 1999-03-30 | 1999-03-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.2 x5.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Birthday Letters Poems||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Intimate and Powerful|By Brooke Summerlin|Readers familiar with the dynamic, forceful romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath will find rich reading in Birthday Letters. This collection of poems about his relationship and marriage to Plath is deeply personal and filled with intimate references to events in the lives of both Hughes and Plath. While the poems are beautiful and wel|.com |Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters--88 tantalizing responses to Sylvia Plath and the furies she left behind--emerge from an echo chamber of art and memory, rage and representation. In the decades following his wife's 1963 suicide, Hughes kept silent, a
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath.
The poems in Birthday Letters are addressed (with just two exceptions) to Plath, and were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, th...
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