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Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [ 1 ]
Poetry by Ted Hughes Birthday Letters (London: Faber and Faber, 1998) Helen Melody ( Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library) introduces Hughes's remarkable sequence of poems about his relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Published in 1998, just months before his own death, the poems in Birthday Letters are a staggeringly beautiful account of Ted Hughes’ reckoning with the life and suicide of his late wife...
BIRTHDAY LETTERS 83 Memory is further complicated by the use Hughes makes of Plath's own poems. Time and again these letters read as replies to her poems, weaving her lines or phrases into his own (sometimes exculpatory) version of events as he tells his side of the story. 'The Rabbit Catcher' is only the most overt of these intertextual pieces.
10 sty 1998 · 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.
Toward the end, when she was writing furiously—turning out almost one ferocious poem a day—Plath identified Hughes with her father and damned them both as oppressors.
cancer. Thus he titled his book, a sequence of eighty-eight poems, Birthday Letters. Throughout his career Ted Hughes frequently acknowledged the influence of c.g. Jung's psychology on his life and work, a subject which has been explored in books by longtime Hughes scholars Sagar and Scigaj. Background for the interest of Jung and Hughes in alche
