The critic James Wood, quoted in this commentary on Ted Hughes's
poetry collection The Birthday Letters, which is, in essence, a
record of his relationship with Sylvia Plath, described the poems
as 'little epidemics of blame'. Wagner takes a friendlier view, and
in the press seems not quite to appreciate how extraordinarily
adversarial many of these pieces are. Nevertheless, this is an
intelligent, useful book, tracing connections not only with the
biographical events that provoked Hughes poems but also with
Plath's own poetry. (Kirkus UK)
Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must
constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes
published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and
acclaim. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a
quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely
to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift,
Erica Wagner offers a commentary on the poems, pointing the reader
towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how
they draw upon Plath's own work.
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