Birthday LettersEnglish Poet Laureate Ted Hughes's Birthday letters is written to his wife, Sylvia Plath. It explores the two young poets' tumultuous love affair and marriage, a subject which has fascinated the literary world since her suicide in 1963. Written secretly over a period of more than twenty-five years since her death, these poignant verses reveal the psychological drama that led not only to Plath's most powerful poetry, but also to her eventual destruction. |
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