Birthday Letters

Poems

Hughes, Ted

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

<p><i>Birthday Letters</i> is Hughes's account of his marriage to Sylvia Plath, which began as a love match between two gifted and ambitious young poets and ended with Plath's suicide in 1963 at the age of thirty, after Hughes had left her for another woman. The book thus makes up the untold portion of one of the great tragic love stories of our time, one so laden with myth and acrimony that at times it resembles a post-feminist<i> Romeo and Juliet</i>.</p>

ISBN-13

9780374525811

ISBN-10

0374525811

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

1999

Publication date

1999-03-30

Dimensions

214 x 141 x 16

Weight

250