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Poetry & drama
Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes
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- Author
- Ted Hughes
- Publisher
- QPD (Quality Paperbacks Direct), by arrangement with Faber and Faber Limited
- Year
- 1998
- Edition
- This edition published 1998 by QPD by arrangement with Faber and Faber Limited
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dust jacket
- No
- Condition
- Very Good
About this copy
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters is the deeply personal sequence of poems addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet he married. Written over more than twenty-five years, beginning a few years after her death in 1963, these poems are intimate, candid and moving. They are the first time Hughes gave his own account of the psychological drama that ran through both her greatest work and her death.
Hughes was Poet Laureate from 1984 and is one of the most celebrated poets of his generation. This copy is a tidy QPD paperback issued in 1998 by arrangement with Faber and Faber. The binding is firm, the pages are clean, and the striking cover painting by Frieda Hughes is bright.
Condition
- Book
- Very Good - A firm, tight binding with clean pages and a bright cover. Light handling marks and minor creasing on the back cover.
A pre-owned book; any wear beyond that described is minor and in keeping with its age.
Collector's notes
- A substantial, personal sequence of poems from one of the great English poets of the 20th century.
- Published 1998 by QPD by arrangement with Faber and Faber.
- This is a QPD paperback edition, not the original 1998 Faber hardback.
- Cover painting by Frieda Hughes.
A lovely copy, ready for its next reader.
This is a pre-owned book. Please look at every photograph: they show its true condition.
