Ted Hughes

This is a remarkably informal quarterly: the sketch on its cover shows a bouncing mad-hatter figure with a bunch of flowers in his hand and a pile of books on his head. While endearingly open...

The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare (written for the John Clare Society ) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early...

Revelation, based on a childhood memory, presents a young girl's encounter with a black bull—immense, / his edges merging with the darkness. The bull seems like an incarnation of evil—this antidote...

The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil , appeared after the death of Plath's husband, Ted Hughes : the first printing of the entire corpus of Plath's surviving journals.

SH has edited several poetry anthologies, notably the two on which he collaborated with Ted Hughes : The Rattle Bag, 1982, and The School Bag, 1997.

At the time of her death SP had completed a substantial portion of a novel she had tentatively titled Double Exposure. The novel portrayed the deceitful relationship of, to all outward appearances, a...

For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath , D. H. Lawrence , Thom Gunn , Ted Hughes , Cesare Pavese , Eugene Ionesco , Simone de Beauvoir , Jorge Luis Borges ,...

Hughes was pressured to publish SP 's work shortly after her death. Exercising his copyright control as literary executor, he omitted fourteen of the forty-one poems which Plath had prepared in a collection she had...

An American edition with further selections appeared in 1979.Ted Hughes wrote the introduction to the US edition, in which he discussed Plath's prose writing. The still-life graphic artist in her was loyal...

Intimate or upsetting passages were censored by Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn Hughes . Ted Hughes has described Plath's journal writing as generally negative self-castigation, or a means of rallying her determination to get...

Of the journals for the last two years of Plath's life, her husband destroyed one part. He said later that he wanted to protect their children, thinking of forgetfulness as essential to survival. The...

In 1986 she published with her introduction, through Turret Books , the Selected Poems of her late brother Harry Fainlight , with a memoir by Allen Ginsberg and a poem by Ted Hughes , in...

The year FH died, poems of hers were reprinted by Gillian Clarke , Seamus Heaney , and Ted Hughes in a commemorative pamphlet. The next year Michael Horovitz reprinted others in a similar tribute, A...

PB 's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes and Vernon Scannell ) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland ). She began...

This project had begun with AS 's draft of a brief introduction to the work of Plath, written for the PenguinModern Women series and read in manuscript by Plath's widower, Ted Hughes . He...