Author: HUGHES, TED (1930-1998)
Title: Birthday letters
Description: London : Faber 1998. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.Edition; 1st ed. sixth printing. Physical description; ix. 197 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. Contents; Fulbright Scholars -- Caryatids -- Visit -- Sam -- The tender place -- St Botolph's -- The shot -- Trophies -- 18 Rugby Street -- The machine -- God help the wolf after whom the dogs do not bark -- Fidelity -- Fate playing -- The owl -- A pink wool knitted dress -- Your Paris -- You hated Spain -- Moonwalk -- Drawing -- Fever -- 55 Eltisley -- Chaucer -- Ouija -- The Earthenware head -- Wuthering Heights -- The Chipmunk -- Horoscope -- Flounders -- The blue flannel suit -- Child's Park -- 9 Willow Street -- The literary life -- The bird -- Astringency -- The Badlands -- Fishing Bridge -- The 59th Bear -- Grand Canyon -- Karlsbad Caverns -- Black Coat -- Portraits -- Stubbing Wharfe -- Remission -- Isis -- Epiphany -- The Gypsy -- A dream -- The Minotaur -- The pan -- Error -- The lodger -- Daffodils -- The afterbirth -- Setebos -- A short film -- The rag rug -- The table -- Apprehensions -- Dream life -- Perfect light -- The rabbit catcher -- Suttee -- The bee god -- Being Christlike -- The beach -- Dreamers -- Fairy tale -- The Blackbird -- Totem -- Robbing myself -- Blood and innocence -- Costly speech -- The inscription -- Night-ride on Ariel -- Telos -- Brasilia -- The cast -- The Ventriloquist -- Life after death -- The hands -- The prism -- The God -- Freedom of speech -- A picture of Otto -- Fingers -- The dogs are eating your mother. Summary; With just two exceptions. these 88 poems. in the form of a narrative. are addressed to Sylvia Plath. the American poet to whom Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years. the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid. they cover the whole period of their relationship. from the first meeting to the aftermath of Plath's death. but are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led to the writing of her finest poems and to her death. Subjects; Plath. Sylvia (1932-1963). Hughes. Ted (1930-1998) - Poetry. Plath. Sylvia - Poetry. Plath. Sylvia - Marriage - Poetry. Hughes. Ted (1930-1998) - Marriage - Poetry. English poetry - 20th century. Married people - Poetry. Marriage - Poetry. Poets - Poetry. Hughes. Ted. 1930- Poetry in English. Texts. Poetry texts & anthologies ; Poetry & poets. Literary studies: from (c 1900 -). English. Poetry / European / English. Irish. Scottish. Welsh. Genre; Poetry. ISBN: 0571194729. Weight in Kg appr.:

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