Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Her Husband: A Review of Diane Middlebrook on the Plath-Hughes Deal


sylvia & ted on their honeymoon

Well, thank God someone has finally written a Plath book that isn’t all Plath. Kudos to Diane Middlebrook for writing about the infamous Ted Hughes as he related to his wife Sylvia, the poetess extraordinaire, the yin to his yang, or as some believe, the yin to her yang and giving us at last the balanced portrait that we’ve been searching for all these years.>> more