Birthday Letters

Name: Birthday Letters
Author: Ted Hughes

by Ted Hughes

Poems addressing marriage, loss, and personal reckoning with wife Sylvia Plath

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Ted Hughes

English poet laureate whose early collections Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal show an elemental connection to animals and violence. Crow and Birthday Letters, his response to Sylvia Plath's death, are his most ambitious works.

More by Ted Hughes

The Hawk in the RainDebut collection of violent, predatory animal imagery exploring human brutality
LupercalPoetry featuring animals as symbols of violence and primitive human impulses
CrowSequence of fragmented poems featuring mythic crow navigating chaos and survival
Remains of ElmetPoetry exploring industrial devastation and beauty in Yorkshire landscape and history