Death of a Poet
Ted Hughes died 25 years ago. But not before he shared "Birthday Letters" with the world—88 pieces written for Sylvia Plath "mainly to evoke her presence to myself and to feel her there listening.”
By Michael Judge
Tragically, a quarter-century after his death in October 1998 much of what you read about England’s then-poet laureate, Ted Hughes, still focuses on the controversy surrounding the suicide of his first wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath. One U.S. journalist, writing shortly after Hughes’s…
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