New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, lettered in gilt original pictorially decorated dustjacket. (10), (198) pp. A very fine copy in very fine dustjacket. “Ted Hughes’s 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 to her death.”

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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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Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 20421
Title: BIRTHDAY LETTERS
Author: Hughes Ted
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998

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