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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 SContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Birthday Letters By Ted Hughes
One of the major literary events of the year is the publication of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, an extraordinary portrait of his marriage to poet Sylvia Plath through 88 chronologically arranged poems to her. Hughes, since 1987 Great Britain's Poet ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0571194737
- ISBN-13: 9780571194735
- Publisher: Faber Faber
- Pub date: Dec 31, 2001
- Also available as: Hardcover and Leather Bound
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| 9780571194735 | Paperback | $16.08 | $20.15 | The Book Depository |
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The happy couple
Ever since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, there has been an argument as to who was responsible, whose fault it was - Plath's or Ted Hughes's - that she died. On the face of it, Birthday Letters, Hughes's extraordinary poetic sequence to Plath, might b ... (read full critics)