Birthday Letters
by Hughes, Ted
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 198 pp. Fine condition. 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.
Synopsis
Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006806
- Title
- Birthday Letters
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Ted Hughes, Poetry, Poems, Letters, Sylvia Plath
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Letters;
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