Birthday Letters: Poems

Ted Hughes • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • ISBN-13 978‑0374525811

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Birthday Letters: Poems

Ted Hughes • Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN-10: 0374525811 · ISBN-13: 978‑0374525811 · 1999

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This collection of poems serves as a poignant and intimate chronicle of the complex relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Through these verses, Hughes addresses his late wife directly, navigating themes of memory, grief, and the haunting nature of their shared past. The work stands as a significant contribution to twentieth-century confessional poetry, offering a rare, deeply personal perspective on one of literature's most scrutinized partnerships.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 30, 1999
Pages: 208Language: English

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Author: Ted Hughes

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Inferred: AutobiographInferred: ConfessionalismInferred: Confessional PoetryInferred: GriefInferred: Grief In LiteratureInferred: Large Type BooksInferred: Literary Biography

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Influences: Sylvia Plath, ModernismCornerstone of: Confessional Poetry, 20th Century English Literature

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