Birthday Letters Birthday Letters Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is 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, politicized and "explosive" marriage. Until the publication of this book, 35 years after Plath's suicide, Hughes had said and published nearly nothing about his relationship and life with Plath. When it was discovered that he had infidelities
Halcyon (poetry collection) Halcyon (poetry collection) Halcyon, (Italian: "Alcyone") is the title of a collection of 88 poems by Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, written between 1899 and 1903, and published in 1903. It was intended as the third volume of a seven-book work called "Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi" (Odes to the sky, to the sea, to the earth and to the heroes) which was subsequently interrupted in 1912 with only four volumes published: "Maia", "Elettra", "Halcyon", and "Merope". On July 7, 1899, D'Annunzio wrote to his editor Treves about a long and complex lyrical work he was