Ariel's Gift Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters

"In ARIEL'S GIFT Erica Wagner works seamlessly among the lives and times and responsorial lines brought into being by the alchemy between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, two of the last century's fiercest voices and finest poets. Part biography, part literary criticism, part homage, this remarkable book avoids the temptation of soap opera and tabloid that has attended much that has been written about these gifted and damaged partners. It treats their beautiful, sad, hurtsome and passionate attachments and separations as they did themselves--as fodder for their work, their poems, their art."Wagner, Erica is the author of 'Ariel's Gift Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters' with ISBN 9780393323016 and ISBN 0393323013.