"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."Publishers Weekly starred review
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. 8 pages of b/w photographs.
"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
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"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."Publishers Weekly starred review
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. 8 pages of b/w photographs.
"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
Imprint | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 2002 |
Authors | Erica Wagner |
Dimensions | 209 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 312 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-32301-6 |
Barcode | 9780393323016 |
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LSN | 0-393-32301-3 |