Critic Ronald Hayman
argues that the Plath-Hughes marriage had been extraordinariy close, despite Hughes's flirtations, despite rows and excessive demands on each other. They had, he writes, seldom been separated for more than ten...
Friends, Associates
Elaine Feinstein
While she was teaching at Essex, EF
met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn
, who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard
Publishing
Ruth Fainlight
RF
collaborated on a slim volume of Poems with Ted Hughes
and her husband, Alan Sillitoe
. This was published in 1971 by Rainbow Press
, an organization set up this year by Olwyn Hughes
Publishing
Sylvia Plath
Another posthumous collection of SP
's poems, Crystal Gazer, was published by the Rainbow Press
, which had been set up that year by Olwyn Hughes
at her brother
's suggestion to produce high-quality limited editions.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
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Feinstein, Elaine. Ted Hughes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001.
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Textual Production
Anne Stevenson
AS
felt that Hughes's side of his painful relationship with Plath deserved a hearing, and that she could respect his attempts to protect Plath's mother and their children. AS
was aware that conflicts with Ted...
Textual Production
Sylvia Plath
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...