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Poetry or Prying?

Advantages: It will make you believe in love.
Disadvantages: You may feel you are prying.

Ted Hughes was always reticent about his marraige to Sylvia Plath and it seems beautifully appropriate that he should finally choose to talk about it in poetry. The poetry itself is polished, moving and thought-provoking but I suspect the real interest li ...

Narda 22.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Letters to Sylvia

Advantages: fantastic use of language
Disadvantages: sometimes hard going to read.

I bought this book several years ago and have been unable to put it down since! It is an honest and fascinating account of Ted Hughes ultimately tragic relationship with the American Poet Sylvia Plath. The couple met at Cambridge University in 1956 and ma ...

cora_95 04.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Emotional rollercoaster

Advantages: Ted Hughes at his best
Disadvantages: May need to read some of the poems over and over

Whether or not you are a fan of the late former Poet Laureate,it has to be said that he was a master of style and linguistic technique.The poems in this collection are,of course,addressed directly to his late wife,the American poet Sylvia Plath,and were w ...

Suzan 18.10.2000 · Read full review
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