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
Letters to Felice Felice", the collection was first published in English by Schocken Books in 1973. It was translated by James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth. Bulgarian novelist Elias Canetti wrote about the correspondence in "Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice". Through a reading of the letters along with sections of "The Trial" Canetti examined Kafka's struggle between a comfortable middle-class life and individual isolation. Letters to Felice Letters to Felice is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer from 1912 to 1917. Schocken Books acquired these letters from Felice Bauer in 1955, in addition to roughly half of