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1. 'Getting over our selves': Elegy and rhetoric in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters and Carrie Etter's Imagined Sons.

Author

Dreyer, Cathy

Subjects
POETRY (Literary form), NONFICTION
Abstract

Critical analysis of Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes and Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter is illuminated by reading both texts against the rhetorical strategies and conventions of elegy. Birthday Letters and Imagined Sons are engaged in communicating strong feelings of grief following serious losses within lived experience, for which both construct first-person speakers. This article recognizes the presence of the conventions of elegy in both texts and suggests that despite thematic and structural similarities, there are significant differences in the ways the speakers in these texts are configured and how they address their audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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2. Muck Funnel.

Author

Wood, James

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form), *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Birthday Letters," by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

4. Sylvia Plath Hughes: The Middle Ground in the New Millennium.

Author

Matthews, Pamela R.

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews several books. "The Other Sylvia Plath," by Tracy Brain; "Birthday Letters," by Ted Hughes; "Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage," by Diane Middlebrook; "Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath," by Kate Moses; "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath," by Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil; Others.

Published
2006
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5. Mourning Eurydice: Ted Hughes as Orpheus in Birthday Letters.

Author

Bundtzen, Lynda K.

Subjects
*MARRIAGE in literature, *THEMES in poetry
Abstract

The article critiques the poem "Birthday Letters," by Ted Hughes, particularly exploring the married life of the poet and his poet-wife Sylvia Plath. It provides a comparison of the poem with Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses," discusses Hughes' motive behind writing the poem, and notes the depiction of life after Plath's suicide.

Published
2000
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6. Connubial Abyss.

Author

Harrison, Kathryn

Subjects
*MARRIAGE
Abstract

Reviews five books on marriage. `Elegy for Iris,' by John Bayley; `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes; `Intimacy,' by Hanif Kureishi; `Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages,' by Phyllis Rose.

Published
2000

7. Birthday Letters.

Author

Patterson, Ian

Subjects
POETRY collections
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes.

Published
2000
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8. Wreath for a Bridal.

Author

Stevenson, Anne

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1999

9. Owning the facts of his life: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters.

Author

Bere, Carol

Subjects
*POETS, *MARRIAGE in literature, *PSYCHOLOGY
Abstract

The article discusses the poetic sequence "Birthday Letters" by the American poet Ted Hughes, and examines their subject of Hughes' relationship with his late wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. The themes of Plath's creative life as a poet and her psychological anguish are commented on, and contrasts between the poetic styles of Plath and Hughes are explored.

Published
1998

10. Broken silence.

Author

Grossman, Judith

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

11. Confessional poetry & the artifice of honesty.

Author

Yezzi, David

Subjects
*CONFESSIONAL poetry
Abstract

The article focuses on confessional poetry, with emphasis on the English poet Ted Hughes' poem "Birthday Letters," which revealed the tragic literary love story of his life with his wife, fellow poet Sylvia Plath. A definition of confessional poetry is offered, and Hughes' observations on Plath's obsession with divinity are presented. References to William DeWitt Snodgrass' poem "Heart's Needle," about his strained relationship between himself and his daughter, are also touched on.

Published
1998

12. Book reviews: Arts & humanities.

Author

Hoffert, Barbara

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

13. Poet's license.

Author

Gray, Paul

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

14. A family romance.

Author

Fenton, James

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes. INSET: Fever,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

15. The poet's inquest.

Author

Wright, Carolyne

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

16. Hughes among the superstars.

Author

Pettingell, Phoebe

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form)
Abstract

Reviews two books. `Tales From Ovid,' by Ted Hughes which is about the writings of poet Ovid in English; `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes which is about the life of Sylvia Plath.

Published
1998

18. The widower.

Author

Berley, Marc

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

19. Peering into the bell jar.

Author

Pollitt, Katha

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes, the author's version of life with Sylvia Plath in 88 poems.

Published
1998

20. Et in America ego.

Author

Miller, Karl

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

21. Visions and revisions.

Author

Ostriker, Alicia

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998
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22. For better or verse?

Author

Cunningham, Valentine

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

24. Remembering Sylvia.

Author

Bemrose, John

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

25. New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.

Author

Veale, Scott

Subjects
*PAPERBACKS
Abstract

Reviews several paperback books. `Under Gemini: A Memoir,' by Isabel Bolton; `Preston Falls,' by David Gates; `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes; `Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story,' by Roy Blount Jr.; Others.

Published
1999

26. Books: Poetry Collections.

Author

Blakely, Diann

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1999

29. Into the open.

Author

Glover, Michael

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

30. BIRTHDAY LETTERS

Author

Jensen, Jeff

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

A powerful and intriguing collection in which Hughes breaks his decades-long silence concerning Sylvia Plath.

Published
1998

31. Breaking the long silence: Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath.

Author

Lund, Elizabeth

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the poetry book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes. Hughes as the late poet Sylvia Plath's husband; The book as a collection of 88 poems written by Hughes to Plath; Hughes' honesty about their troubled marriage in his poems.

Published
1998

33. Forecasts: Nonfiction.

Author

Stuttaford, Genevieve and Zaleski, Jeff

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

35. Poetic justice.

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes.

Published
1998

36. Lives of the poets.

Author

Gray, Paul

Subjects
BIRTHDAY Letters (Book : Hughes)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Birthday Letters,' by Ted Hughes, which explores the author's marriage to Sylvia Plath.

Published
1998

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