Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted—and nourished—his entire life by his relationship to Sylvia Plath.
Her Husband is a triumph of the biographer's art and an up-close look at a couple who saw each other as the means to becoming who they wanted to be: writers and mythic representations of a whole generation.

Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage

Biographies & Memoirs

Middlebrook, Diane

Arts & Literature

Penguin Publishing Group

Traces the more than six-year marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, which ended with Plath's suicide, profiling Hughes as a complicated and magnetic figure possessing a shrewd and ambitious business sense, and noting how many blamed him for Plath's death. 75,000 first printing.

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage

Viking Adult

Anne Sexton: A Biography

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

History

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Her Husband

Blackstone Pub

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--A Marriage

Blackstone Audiobooks

After writing two extremely well received biographiesthe first about Anne Sexton and the second about poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plathworld-renowned scholar Diane Middlebrook’s final project was a study of Ovid’s work. Though he has been dead for over two thousand years and had left no personal recordsnot even the name of his motherhis poetry endures. Middlebrook was convinced that her intimate knowledge of Ovid’s poetry and the approach she used in Her Husband (winner of the Prix Du Meilleur Livre Estranger), combined with a deep immersion into the Rome of Ovid’s time, would enable her to write what could, without bragging, be called an Ovidian biography. However, severe health issues interfered with Middlebrook’s work, and she was ultimately unable to complete this ambitious project before her death in 2007. She left behind an extraordinary look at the conditions and customs to which Ovid was exposed as a young Roman, as well as an acute interpretation of his family and personal life, gleaned from close readings of his poetry and letters from exile. Exhaustively researched and carefully constructed, Middelbrook’s portrayal of Ovid is certain to be studied by scholars and read by historians for year to come.

Young Ovid: A Life Recreated

Reference

Counterpoint

Du wolltest deine Sterne: Sylvia Plath und Ted Hughes

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Edition fünf

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