Ariel's Gift - Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters (Paperback)

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters

"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly starred review

When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath.

In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters, showing the events that shaped them and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work. 8 pages of b/w photographs.

"Both narratively engaging and scholastically comprehensive."—Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles Times

"Wagner has set the poems of Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Plath with great delicacy."—Times Literary Supplement

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	April 2002
Authors:	Erica Wagner
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32301-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-393-32301-3
Barcode:	9780393323016

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