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 from Turkey (Moltke) stay. But while in İstanbul, he was requested by the Ottoman government to enter the Turkish service, and being authorized from his headquarters, he accepted the offer. (Jannisaries, the traditional Ottoman army was recently abolished and the government was trying to establish a new army.) During his stay in the empire, he wrote a series of 67 letters to his family members and friends in Germany about the Ottoman Empire. But according to Turkish interpretter Hayrullah Örs, some of these letters were not really letters, but were essays on certain topics and were added to the collection later (like the