In March 1963, a month after the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes wrote an anguished letter to her mother, Aurelia. “I don’t ever want to be forgiven,” he wrote about ...

Poet Ted Hughes met Sylvia Plath 1956. "They were both geniuses, says biographer Jonathan Bate. Hughes is shown above on the first day of trout fishing season in April 1986.

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.

February 01, 2004 Collected Poems Ted Hughes Edited by Paul Keegan Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $50 (cloth) Ted Hughes was a remarkably prolific writer who produced numerous collections of poetry, ...

A biography of poet Ted Hughes that chronicles his multiple love affairs during his marriage to poet Sylvia Plath and after she committed suicide is among six books shortlisted for the Samuel ...

That’s because Plath used Hughes’s “desertion,” as she called it, as source material for poems in “Ariel,” the posthumous collection that made her one of the most widely read poets of ...