Like for many artists and writers, the relationship between Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes was a very strange one. From the very beginning, Hughes believed that their union had been ...

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It’s basically a canon event for every creative girl in her twenties to have a borderline neurotic obsession with Sylvia ... Plath’s own life bore a controversial influence over her own work, whether ...

If the name "Frieda Hughes" sounds familiar, it's because she is the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and is an established poet and painter in her own right. Mare Island Toastmasters will ...

Ted: A fucking good poem is a weapon. It's... and not like a "pop", it's a bomb. A bloody big bomb! Sylvia: That's why they make children learn them in school. They don't want them messing about with ...

Although Sylvia Plath is admired by many literary scholars and even adored ... ecstatically and secretly married to Ted Hughes. This volume is a portrait of the artist as a young woman, a genre with ...

WE CANNOT STOP talking about Sylvia Plath. Or rather ... to do with what it is we are allowed to talk about. Those who write on Plath, whose own writing, as her husband Ted Hughes put it, went ...

Faber’s second published volume of Sylvia Plath’s letters ... covered in this volume – Plath was consummately involved in life-management. There was no one busier. The book opens with Plath recently ...

If you, an author, wish to quote a line from a poem by Ted Hughes in your forthcoming work of fiction, you will need to set aside considerable amounts of time and possibly money in order to obtain ...