Ted Hughes — Birthday Letters

London, Faber and Faber, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition, first impression of this poetry collection from English writer Ted Hughes. First edition, first impression. A collection of poetry released only months before the author's death, which won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. These eighty-eight poems are widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed and politicized marriage. Written by Edward James Hughes, an English poet, translator, and children's writer who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.