The Boston Globe: A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage
In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and motherhood as a ...
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...
WESA: Sylvia Plath's Husband, Ted Hughes, Lived A Life Of Poetry And Tragedy
Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...
Sylvia Plath's Husband, Ted Hughes, Lived A Life Of Poetry And Tragedy
Time: ‘Only Did What Poetry Told Us to Do:’ A Portrait of Sylvia Plath on Honeymoon With Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a ...
‘Only Did What Poetry Told Us to Do:’ A Portrait of Sylvia Plath on Honeymoon With Ted Hughes
The Washington Post: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ is an indictment of Ted Hughes
Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more than six ...