The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath ... of both a culture that misreads Plath, and of Plath’s late husband, Ted Hughes, Britain’s longtime poet laureate and ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic ... herself in 1963 by putting her head in a gas oven at her London home while her two children ...