GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of British Poetry After 1925

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Example Question #201 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English

Who is the author of Birthday Letters?

Possible Answers:

T.S. Eliot

Seamus Heaney

Philip Larkin

Ted Hughes

W.H. Auden

Correct answer:

Ted Hughes

Explanation:

Birthday Letters (1998) is British poet laureate Ted Hughes’ last collection of poetry, and it’s also one of his most famous.

Example Question #11 : Contexts Of British Poetry

The poet’s relationship with which American writer is the subject of Birthday Letters?

Possible Answers:

Adrienne Rich

Marianne Moore

Elizabeth Bishop

Anne Sexton

Sylvia Plath

Correct answer:

Sylvia Plath

Explanation:

In Birthday Letters (1998), Hughes examines the suicide of his first wife, American poet Sylvia Plath. Hughes and Plath were married in 1956, and Plath died in 1963.

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