Birthday Letters

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Birthday LettersISBN13:9780374525811ISBN10:0374525811Author:Hughes, Ted (Author)Description:Formerly Poet Laureate To Queen Elizabeth Ii, The Late Ted Hughes (1930-98) Is Recognized As One Of The Few Contemporary Poets Whose Work Has Mythic Scope And Power And Few Episodes In Postwar Literature Have The Legendary Stature Of Hughes's Romance With, And Marriage To, The Great American Poet Sylvia Plath The Poems In Birthday Letters Are Addressed (With Just Two Exceptions) To Plath, And Were Written Over A Period Of More Than Twenty-Five Years, The First A Few Years After Her Suicide In 1963 Some Are Love Letters, Others Haunted Recollections And Ruminations In Them, Hughes Recalls His And Plath's Time Together, Drawing On The Powerful Imagery Of His Work--Animal, Vegetable, Mythological--As Well As On Plath's Famous Verse Countless Books Have Discussed The Subject Of This Intense Relationship From A Necessary Distance, But This Volume--At Last--Offers Us Hughes's Own Account Moreover, It Is A Truly Remarkable Collection Of Pems In Its Own Right The Past Contemporary Poet Gives An Account In 88 Poems In Letter Form Of Hisromance And The Life Spent With Sylvia Plath Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Farrar Straus GirouxPublication Date:1999-03-30Weight:0.55 lbsDimensions:0.7'' H x 8.2'' L x 5.4'' WNumber of Pages:197Language:English

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