Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes Henne van der Kooy Each poem evokes the natural

Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom

William Faulkner

in de volstrekt natuurlijk aandoende

Ergens vlakbij

maar betaalde daarvoor met zijn leven

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes Henne van der Kooy Each poem evokes the naturalTed Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on