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Ted Hughes Birthday Letters (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Birthday Letters : Poems
- Publication Name
- Birthday Letters
- Title
- Birthday Letters
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374525811
- EAN
- 9780374525811
- ISBN
- 9780374525811
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 30/03/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Topic
- General, Subjects & Themes / Family, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Birthday Letters 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 Romeo and Juliet .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374525811
ISBN-13
9780374525811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
807965
Product Key Features
Book Title
Birthday Letters : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Subjects & Themes / Family, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6068.U37
Reviews
An extraordinary book . . . [Hughes's] subject is Plath herself--how she looked and moved and talked, her pleasures, rages, uncanny dreams, and many terrors, what was good between them and where it went wrong., "An extraordinary book . . . [Hughes's] subject is Plath herself--how she looked and moved and talked, her pleasures, rages, uncanny dreams, and many terrors, what was good between them and where it went wrong." -- A. Alvarez, The New Yorker "The critics who are urging us to regard these poems as masterpieces are right. Their intensity of feeling, the clarity of their imagery, the precision, energy, simplicity, and fluidity of their language are still striking." -- Paul Levy, The Wall Street Journal "An emotional, direct, regretful, and entranced [tone] pervades the book's strongest poems, which are quiet and thoughtful and conversational." -- Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review "Most of the poems in Birthday Letters have a wonderful immediacy and tenderness that's new to Hughes's writing, a tenderness that enables him to communicate Plath's terrors as palpably as her own verse, and to convey his own lasting sense of loss and grief. . . . They should be read because they constitute the strongest, most emotionally tactile work of Hughes' career." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The publication of Birthday Letters is the most sensational event I can think of in the recent history of English-language poetry." -- Christopher Benfey, Slate "The book comes like a thunderbolt from the blue. And reading it is like being hit by a thunderbolt. Its power is sometimes tender, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished, and always springing from a burning, continuous present. Anyone who thought Hughes's reticence was proof of his hard heart will immediately see how stony they have been themselves. This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken, and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature." -- Andrew Motion, The London Times, Most of the poems in Birthday Letters have a wonderful immediacy and tenderness that's new to Hughes's writing, a tenderness that enables him to communicate Plath's terrors as palpably as her own verse, and to convey his own lasting sense of loss and grief. . . . They should be read because they constitute the strongest, most emotionally tactile work of Hughes' career., "An extraordinary book . . . [Hughes's] subject is Plath herself--how she looked and moved and talked, her pleasures, rages, uncanny dreams, and many terrors, what was good between them and where it went wrong."-A. Alvarez,The New Yorker "The critics who are urging us to regard these poems as masterpieces are right. Their intensity of feeling, the clarity of their imagery, the precision, energy, simplicity, and fluidity of their language are still striking."-Paul Levy,The Wall Street Journal "An emotional, direct, regretful, and entranced [tone] pervades the book's strongest poems, which are quiet and thoughtful and conversational."-Katha Pollitt,The New York Times Book Review "Most of the poems inBirthday Lettershave a wonderful immediacy and tenderness that's new to Hughes's writing, a tenderness that enables him to communicate Plath's terrors as palpably as her own verse, and to convey his own lasting sense of loss and grief. . . . They should be read because they constitute the strongest, most emotionally tactile work of Hughes' career."--Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "The publication ofBirthday Lettersis the most sensational event I can think of in the recent history of English-language poetry."--Christopher Benfey,Slate "The book comes like a thunderbolt from the blue. And reading it is like being hit by a thunderbolt. Its power is sometimes tender, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished, and always springing from a burning, continuous present. Anyone who thought Hughes's reticence was proof of his hard heart will immediately see how stony they have been themselves. This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken, and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature."--Andrew Motion,The London Times, The critics who are urging us to regard these poems as masterpieces are right. Their intensity of feeling, the clarity of their imagery, the precision, energy, simplicity, and fluidity of their language are still striking., An emotional, direct, regretful, and entranced [tone] pervades the book's strongest poems, which are quiet and thoughtful and conversational., The book comes like a thunderbolt from the blue. And reading it is like being hit by a thunderbolt. Its power is sometimes tender, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished, and always springing from a burning, continuous present. Anyone who thought Hughes's reticence was proof of his hard heart will immediately see how stony they have been themselves. This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken, and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature., "An extraordinary book . . . [Hughes's] subject is Plath herself--how she looked and moved and talked, her pleasures, rages, uncanny dreams, and many terrors, what was good between them and where it went wrong."-A. Alvarez, The New Yorker "The critics who are urging us to regard these poems as masterpieces are right. Their intensity of feeling, the clarity of their imagery, the precision, energy, simplicity, and fluidity of their language are still striking."-Paul Levy, The Wall Street Journal "An emotional, direct, regretful, and entranced [tone] pervades the book's strongest poems, which are quiet and thoughtful and conversational."-Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review "Most of the poems in Birthday Letters have a wonderful immediacy and tenderness that's new to Hughes's writing, a tenderness that enables him to communicate Plath's terrors as palpably as her own verse, and to convey his own lasting sense of loss and grief. . . . They should be read because they constitute the strongest, most emotionally tactile work of Hughes' career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The publication of Birthday Letters is the most sensational event I can think of in the recent history of English-language poetry."--Christopher Benfey, Slate "The book comes like a thunderbolt from the blue. And reading it is like being hit by a thunderbolt. Its power is sometimes tender, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished, and always springing from a burning, continuous present. Anyone who thought Hughes's reticence was proof of his hard heart will immediately see how stony they have been themselves. This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken, and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature."--Andrew Motion, The London Times, "An extraordinary book . . . [Hughes's] subject is Plath herself--how she looked and moved and talked, her pleasures, rages, uncanny dreams, and many terrors, what was good between them and where it went wrong."A. Alvarez, The New Yorker "The critics who are urging us to regard these poems as masterpieces are right. Their intensity of feeling, the clarity of their imagery, the precision, energy, simplicity, and fluidity of their language are still striking."Paul Levy, The Wall Street Journal "An emotional, direct, regretful, and entranced [tone] pervades the book's strongest poems, which are quiet and thoughtful and conversational."Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review "Most of the poems in Birthday Letters have a wonderful immediacy and tenderness that's new to Hughes's writing, a tenderness that enables him to communicate Plath's terrors as palpably as her own verse, and to convey his own lasting sense of loss and grief. . . . They should be read because they constitute the strongest, most emotionally tactile work of Hughes' career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The publication of Birthday Letters is the most sensational event I can think of in the recent history of English-language poetry."--Christopher Benfey, Slate "The book comes like a thunderbolt from the blue. And reading it is like being hit by a thunderbolt. Its power is sometimes tender, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished, and always springing from a burning, continuous present. Anyone who thought Hughes's reticence was proof of his hard heart will immediately see how stony they have been themselves. This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken, and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature."--Andrew Motion, The London Times, The publication of Birthday Letters is the most sensational event I can think of in the recent history of English-language poetry.
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
98-070935
Dewey Decimal
821.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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