{"product_id":"birthday-letters","title":"Birthday Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ted Hughes\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1998\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 198\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780571194735\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMENTS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To read [Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of “the bends”. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the under-truths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping… The book’s contents are unfailingly interesting, but what makes Birthday Letters a poetic as opposed to a publishing landmark is the valency of the poetry itself… This poems give the impression of utterance, avalanching towards vision.”\u003cbr\u003e--- Seamus Heaney, Irish Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Language is like lava, its molten turmoils hardening into jagged shapes, still hot from the earth’s core… You must read them.” \u003cbr\u003e--- John Carey, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Poems come dazzling out of the darkness, and they are not answers to his critics after all, or appeals for understanding, but tender and elegiac acts of remembrance.” \u003cbr\u003e--- Nicci Gerrard, Observer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value… Its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book.” \u003cbr\u003e--- Andrew Motion, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tFulbright Scholars \u003cbr\u003e2.\tCaryatids (I)\u003cbr\u003e3.\tCaryatids (II)\u003cbr\u003e4.\tVisit \u003cbr\u003e5.\tSam \u003cbr\u003e6.\tThe Tender Place\u003cbr\u003e7.\tSt Botolph’s \u003cbr\u003e8.\tThe Shot\u003cbr\u003e9.\tTrophies \u003cbr\u003e10.\t18 Rugby Street \u003cbr\u003e11.\tThe Machine \u003cbr\u003e12.\tGod help the Wolf after Whom the Dogs Do Not Bark \u003cbr\u003e13.\tFidelity \u003cbr\u003e14.\tFate Playing \u003cbr\u003e15.\tThe Owi \u003cbr\u003e16.\tA Pink Wool Knitted Dress \u003cbr\u003e17.\tYour Paris \u003cbr\u003e18.\tYou Hated Spain \u003cbr\u003e19.\tMoonwalk \u003cbr\u003e20.\tDrawing \u003cbr\u003e21.\tFever \u003cbr\u003e22.\t55 Eltisley\u003cbr\u003e23.\tChaucer \u003cbr\u003e24.\tOuija \u003cbr\u003e25.\tThe Earthenware Head \u003cbr\u003e26.\tWuthering Heights \u003cbr\u003e27.\tThe Chipmunk \u003cbr\u003e28.\tHoroscope \u003cbr\u003e29.\tFlounders \u003cbr\u003e30.\tThe Blue Flannel Suit \u003cbr\u003e31.\tChild’s Park \u003cbr\u003e32.\t9 Willow Street \u003cbr\u003e33.\tThe Literary Life \u003cbr\u003e34.\tThe Bird \u003cbr\u003e35.\tAstringency \u003cbr\u003e36.\tThe Badlands \u003cbr\u003e37.\tFishing Bridge \u003cbr\u003e38.\tThe 59th Bear \u003cbr\u003e39.\tGrand Canyon \u003cbr\u003e40.\tKarlsbad Caverns \u003cbr\u003e41.\tBlack Coat \u003cbr\u003e42.\tPortraits \u003cbr\u003e43.\tStubbing Wharfe \u003cbr\u003e44.\tRemission \u003cbr\u003e45.\tIsis \u003cbr\u003e46.\tEpiphany \u003cbr\u003e47.\tThe Gypsy \u003cbr\u003e48.\tA Dream \u003cbr\u003e49.\tThe Minotaur \u003cbr\u003e50.\tThe Pan \u003cbr\u003e51.\tError \u003cbr\u003e52.\tThe Lodger \u003cbr\u003e53.\tDaffodils \u003cbr\u003e54.\tThe Afterbirth \u003cbr\u003e55.\tSetebos \u003cbr\u003e56.\tA Short Film \u003cbr\u003e57.\tThe Rag Film \u003cbr\u003e58.\tThe Table \u003cbr\u003e59.\tApprehensions \u003cbr\u003e60.\tDream Life \u003cbr\u003e61.\tPerfect Light \u003cbr\u003e62.\tThe Rabbit Catcher \u003cbr\u003e63.\tSuttee \u003cbr\u003e64.\tThe Bee God \u003cbr\u003e65.\tBeing Christlike \u003cbr\u003e66.\tThe Beach \u003cbr\u003e67.\tDreamers\u003cbr\u003e68.\tFairy Tale \u003cbr\u003e69.\tThe Blackbird \u003cbr\u003e70.\tTotem \u003cbr\u003e71.\tRobbing Myself \u003cbr\u003e72.\tBlood and Innocence \u003cbr\u003e73.\tCostly Speech \u003cbr\u003e74.\tThe Inscription \u003cbr\u003e75.\tNight-Ride on Ariel \u003cbr\u003e76.\tTelos \u003cbr\u003e77.\tBrasilia \u003cbr\u003e78.\tThe Cast \u003cbr\u003e79.\tThe Ventriloquist \u003cbr\u003e80.\tLife after Death \u003cbr\u003e81.\tThe Hands \u003cbr\u003e82.\tThe Prism \u003cbr\u003e83.\tThe God \u003cbr\u003e84.\tFreedom of Speech \u003cbr\u003e85.\tA Picture of Otto \u003cbr\u003e86.\tFingers \u003cbr\u003e87.\tThe Dogs Are Eating Your Mother \u003cbr\u003e88.\tRed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ted Hughes \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153727058288,"sku":"30376","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/30376.jpg?v=1793913202","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/birthday-letters","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}