The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression.

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In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...

After her husband, poet Ted Hughes, left her for another woman ... By the time she was discovered less than five hours later, Sylvia Plath was dead from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.

Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...

The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating ... A first edition of the book, signed by Plath’s husband Ted Hughes, was sold in the same year for over A$30,000.