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Birthday Letters

by Ted Hughes
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Synopsis

With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

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Book Details

Published
June 14, 1998
Publisher
Faber & Faber, London
Pages
197
ISBN
9780571197651

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