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Original Title:	Birthday Letters
ISBN:	0374525811 (ISBN13: 9780374525811)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Whitbread Award for Poetry and Book of the Year (1998), T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (1998), Forward Prize for Best Collection (1998)

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes

Paperback | Pages: 198 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 8498 Users | 372 Reviews

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Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath.

The poems in Birthday Letters are addressed (with just two exceptions) to Plath, and were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Some are love letters, others haunted recollections and ruminations. In them, Hughes recalls his and Plath's time together, drawing on the powerful imagery of his work--animal, vegetable, mythological--as well as on Plath's famous verse.

Countless books have discussed the subject of this intense relationship from a necessary distance, but this volume--at last--offers us Hughes's own account. Moreover, it's a truly remarkable collection of poems in its own right.

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Title	:	Birthday Letters
Author	:	Ted Hughes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 198 pages
Published	:	March 30th 1999 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published January 10th 1998)
Categories	:	Poetry. Nonfiction. Classics. Biography

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The freezing soilOf the garden, as I clawed it.All around me that midnight'sGiant clock of frost. And somewhereInside it, wanting to feel nothing,A pulse of fever. SomewhereInside that numbness of the earthOur future trying to happen.I look up - as if to meet your voiceWith all its urgent futureThat has burst in on me. Then look backAt the book of the printed words.You are ten years dead. It is only a story.

I noticed that my understanding of these poems is far better seven years after I first read them. I felt less like I needed to 'study' them than I once did. The rawness of the emotion and the sometimes startlingly clear biographical references make these very important poems. The best poems in this collection are, in my opinion: 'The Shot', 'Fullbright Scholars', 'Freedom of Speech', 'Isis', 'Being Christ-like', 'Epiphany', 'Setebos', 'The Tender Place', and 'Telos'. There is a beautiful line in

Some of the poetry in this novel is absolutely amazing and gripping, others in my opinion not so much. There does seem to be some, for lack of a better phrase, filler. Either way it's still a good collection with a lot of creativity to it.

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Black Thread: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes(Original Review, 2002)Hughes acknowledged he repressed his own feelings for many years after Plaths suicide. The poems he wrote before his death, Birthday Letters, were an outpouring of these feelings about his love for Plath. It was a top seller. If Hughes had published them as a younger man it would have helped his development as a great poet, but due to the repression, it did him untold

I know a lot about Plath. Like many women, I discovered her as a teenager. "The Bell Jar" was on a required summer reading list for my high school, and I loved it at the time. I started reading her poetry, then her unabridged journals, then the published collection of her letters to her mother, the collection of essays and short fiction Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts, then all the biographies I could find. Even the verse fictionalization of her

The Birthday Letters are deliberate and often dense. The memories are often monuments. The weight of time and often judgement arrests the lyrical tide. These pauses offer space to consider. Is there a culpability drifting across the pitch like an errant mist? If there is, then each of must face similar drifts. Bears was my favorite, I imagined Sylvia and Ted on their American road trip akin to Humbert and Dolores. There was never one sock-only Daddy. Aztecs and crematoria are but tributaries

Ive always been more of a Plath fan than a Hughes fan, but that made this interesting because the poems were pretty much all about Plath and his relationship with her, so there was quite a lot there for me to enjoy.The fact is, I dont much like Hughes as a person, but as a poet, its hard to knock him. In fact, this did a lot to make me change my mind about him, at least a little bit. Ive read a few other bits and pieces by Ted Hughes here and there, but this did at least made me want to read