Diane Middlebrook’s new book, Her Husband, is perhaps the first book about the marriage of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to have a happy ending. The story, in its horrifying particulars, is ...

There’s something apt about celebrating the anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death with the republication of Lupercal, which includes such Hughes classics as “Pike” and “Hawk Roosting”. Today, more than ...

A series of unpublished poems handwritten by Ted Hughes in moments of sorrow following the deaths of his partner, Assia Wevill, and their daughter Shura in 1969 will be offered at a week-long online ...

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 his role ...

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 ...

On July 13, 1957, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes arrived in Cape Cod for their second honeymoon. They had been married for over a year, but their London wedding had been a secret. Now, newly arrived in ...

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LONDON -- The National Portrait Gallery in London has bought the only surviving portrait of late poet laureate Ted Hughes by his wife and fellow poet, Sylvia Plath. Plath sketched the drawing of ...