Birthday Letters
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #008437
Full blue cloth. 198 pp. Fine. Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the 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. Intimate and candid in manner, they are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and her death. Countless books have discussed the subject from a necessary distance, but this is the first time that Ted Hughes has given us his personal account.
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