Birthday Letters

Resumen del libro

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 Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

Detailed description
With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of a narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid, they cover the whole period of their relationship, from the first meeting to the aftermath of Plath's death, but are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led to the writing of her finest poems and to her death.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Ted Hughesx{0026}lt;/B (1930-1998) es uno de los grandes poetas ingleses del siglo XX. Fue nombrado poeta laureado en el Reino Unido, el poeta oficial de la Reina, título que obtuvo en 1984 y que conservó hasta su muerte. También es muy conocido por su matrimonio con la poeta estadounidense Sylvia Plath, que se suicidó en 1963. De esa relación surgió uno de sus libros más celebrados Cartas de cumpleaños (1998). Otras obras suyas que cabe destacar son The Hawk in the Rain (1957) y Tales from Ovid (1997).x{0026}lt;/P