Birthday Letters

"As Hughess critical engagement with Plath's poems suggests, there is nothing simply sentimental or nostalgic about 'Birthday Letters.' In fact, a lot of it is pretty unpleasant....Distilled into poetry, the concoction of passion and dispute is particularly hard to swallow. But then one of Hughes's great strengths is that he does not sweeten, and he often makes his readers gulp. None of the new poems is sugared with affection."Hughes, Ted is the author of 'Birthday Letters', published 1999 under ISBN 9780374525811 and ISBN 0374525811.