Publication

2001 - W.W. Norton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • LCCPR6058.U37 B5738 2001
  • DDC821.914

Description

"When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, and immediately landed on the best-seller list. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath.". "In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the powerful and destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters, pointing the reader toward the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Sylvia Plath's own work."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

LyrikMarriageLiteratureIn literatureBirthday lettersHughes, Ted, 1930-Poets in literature

Other Editions

  • Ariel's gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the story of the Birthday lettersW.W. Norton2001-01-01
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