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Edward James Hughes was English Poet Laureate from 1984 to his death in 1998. Famous for his violent poems about the innocent savagery of animals, Ted Hughes was born on Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding district of Yorkshire, which became "the psychological terrain of his later poetry" (The Literary Encyclopedia). He was married to the famous Sylvia Plath from 1956 up to her controversial suicide in 1956. Believed by many to have pushed his wife to suicide, Hughes maintained 35 years of silence on the issue.
And on February 1998, Ted Hughes finally broke the silence with the release of Birthday Letters a collection of 88 poems written over 25 years, published by Faber and Faber; Farrar Straus & Giroux. Birthday Letters received the T.S. Eliot Prize and " re-ignited the famous controversy and met with mixed critical response" (Poets.org). In it, he addresses Sylvia Plath directly, in a conversational manner, which calls to mind an image of an old man leafing through an album with a......

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