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What subject matter did "Birthday Letters" explore?

  • Hughes's childhood

  • His relationship with Sylvia Plath

  • His time as Poet Laureate

  • The English countryside

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Birthday Letters is a collection of poems by Ted Hughes that explores his relationship with Sylvia Plath. The poems were published in 1998, four years after Hughes' death, and were inspired by a series of letters that he had written to Plath during their marriage. The poems are highly personal and often confessional, and they offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of Hughes' mind and heart.
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