num_pages: 312
description: An exploration of the powerful and destructive relationship between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath probes their lives and their writings, coupling commentary with the poems in Birthday Letters and pointing the readers to the events that shaped them.
language: English
title: Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
titlecomplete: Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
genres: Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 595
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc