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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Birthday letters / Ted Hughes.

1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ©1998.

197 pages ; 22 cm

Love poems from a husband to a wife who committed suicide. The writer is poet laureate to Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Sylvia Plath, who was also a poet, gassed herself in 1963 after writing, "Dying is an art, like everything else." The couple are still the subject of controversy in England, some claiming he drove her to it, others that she was an impossible wife.

Plath, Sylvia -- Marriage -- Poetry.

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998 -- Marriage -- Poetry.

Married people -- Poetry.

Marriage -- Poetry.

Poets -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Poems.

"Published in the United Kingdom in 1998 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--Title page verso.

Whitbread Book of the Year, 1998.

Fulbright Scholars -- Caryatids (1) -- Caryatids (2) -- Visit -- Sam -- The Tender Place -- St. Botolph's -- The Shot -- Trophies -- 18 Rugby Street -- The Machine -- God Help the Wolf after Whom the Dogs Do Not Bark -- Fidelity -- Fate Playing -- The Owl -- A Pink Wool Knitted Dress -- Your Paris -- You Hated Spain -- Moonwalk -- Drawing -- Fever -- 55 Eltisley -- Chaucer -- Ouija -- The Earthenware Head -- Wuthering Heights -- The Chipmunk -- Horoscope -- Flounders -- The Blue Flannel Suit -- Child's Park -- 9 Willow Street -- The Literary Life -- The Bird -- Astringency -- The Badlands -- Fishing Bridge -- The 59th Bear -- Grand Canyon -- Karlsbad Caverns -- Black Coat -- Portraits -- Stubbing Wharfe -- Remission -- Isis -- Epiphany -- The Gypsy -- A Dream -- The Minotaur -- The Pan -- Error -- The Lodger -- Daffodils -- The Afterbirth -- Setebos -- A Short Film -- The Rag Rug -- The Table -- Apprehensions -- Dream Life -- Perfect Light -- The Rabbit Catcher -- Suttee -- The Bee God -- Being Christlike -- The Beach -- Dreamers -- Fairy Tale -- The Blackbird -- Totem -- Robbing Myself -- Blood and Innocence -- Costly Speech -- The Inscription -- Night-Ride on Ariel -- Telos -- Brasilia -- The Cast -- The Ventriloquist -- Life after Death -- The Hands -- The Prism -- The God -- Freedom of Speech -- A Picture of Otto -- Fingers -- The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother -- Red.

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