Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters by Eri

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"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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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. "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

Author Biography

Erica Wagner is the author of Gravity, a book of stories, and Ariel's Gift. She was born in New York and lives in London, where she is literary editor of The Times.

Details ISBN0393323013 Author Erica Wagner Short Title ARIELS GIFT Language English ISBN-10 0393323013 ISBN-13 9780393323016 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 821.914 Year 2002 Birth 1967 Pages 322 Subtitle Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters DOI 10.1604/9780393323016 UK Release Date 2002-05-16 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 8 pages of b/w photographs AU Release Date 2002-05-16 NZ Release Date 2002-05-16 US Release Date 2002-05-16 Publisher WW Norton & Co Publication Date 2002-05-16 Audience General We've got this

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