Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom...

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Written over twenty five years mainly to his wife Sylvia Plath.

Ariel's Gift: a commentary on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes - Erica Wagner

"We have grown accustomed to confession", writes Erica Wagner at the very beginning of Ariel's Gift, an extensive commentary on Ted Hughes'...

Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters" - Erica Wagner

Ted Hughes's 'Birthday letters', published in 1998, was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. In 'Ariel's gift', Erica Wagner provides a...