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. "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
| ISBN: | 9780393323016 |
| Publication date: | 16th May 2002 |
| Author: | Erica Wagner |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets |
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.
Ariel's Gift features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Ariel's Gift was written by Erica Wagner and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Ariel's Gift has 312 pages