<p>When Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a quarter of a century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. Here, Erica Wagner provides a commentary on the Birthday Letters poems, indicating the events that shaped them and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Sylvia Plath's own work.</p>

Ariel's Gift

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Erica Wagner

Poetry

Faber and Faber

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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