A new adaptation of Max Porter’s novella brings the story of devastation and tentative renewal to the stage at Belvoir St ...

During the years I spent working on a book about the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, I had several dreams about each of them. One qualifies as what I will call The Biographer's Dream.

But the man as well as poet certainly gets his due. There is a palpable sense here of a felt life here. Indeed, Hughes jumps off its pages, his presence sometimes even dominating his verse.

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in 1959. Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, “Grief Is the Thing With Feathers” has been a hit in the UK, and the American ...

Ted and Sylvia were both in the antechamber to greatness. Hughes had found his voice as a poet. Plath, more troubled, was still a work in progress.

Books, manuscripts and personal items owned by writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were auctioned in London on Wednesday, with two items selling for more than $100,000.

Hughes’ first collections — “The Hawk in the Rain” (1957) and “Lupercal” (1960) — could scarcely contain their young author’s explosive, jagged poetry, as brutal as it was ...

Sylvia Plath, who today is best-known as the author of the autobiographical novel ‘The Bell Jar,’ was a young poet living in England when she met Ted Hughes, then also a young poet.

The author of an acclaimed biography of Anne Sexton, Middlebrook places the Hughes-Plath marriage, and the work it produced, within “a thick cable of twentieth-century texts” by Yeats, Joyce ...

Biographer Jonathan Bate begins “Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’’ with a deposition that came to trial in Boston, 1987, over plaintiff Jane Anderson’s alleged portrayal in Sylvia Plath ...