Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters"
by Erica Wagner
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Synopsis
Ted Hughes's "Birthday letters", published in 1998, was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. In "Ariel's gift", Erica Wagner provides a commentary to the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work.
Book details
Published
03/02/2001
Publisher
Faber and Faber
ISBN
9780571205264
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UK Kirkus review
The critic James Wood, quoted in this commentary on Ted Hughes's poetry collection The Birthday Letters, which is, in essence, a record of his relationship with Sylvia Plath, described the poems as 'little epidemics of blame'. Wagner takes a friendlier view, and in the press seems not quite to appreciate how extraordinarily adversarial many of these pieces are. Nevertheless, this is an intelligent, useful book, tracing connections not only with the biographical events that provoked Hughes poems but also with Plath's own poetry. (Kirkus UK)
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