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

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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.

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Weight 0.36 kg
Dimensions 2.13 × 13.97 × 3.81 cm
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Paperback
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384
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Year Published

2004-8-31
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Publication City/Country

USA
ISBN 10

0142004871
About The Author

Diane Middlebrook is the author of two highly praised, bestselling biographies, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton and Anne Sexton: A Biography, which was a National Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Diane MiddlebrookÆs shrewd and compelling biography . . . is a book of mysteries, delicately revealed. (O Magazine)A deep, rich, and satisfying biography of a marriageù harrowing and ironic, playful and grave. (The Washington Post Book World)Unquestionably the best book written thus far on these complicated geniuses. (The Baltimore Sun)
Table Of Content

Her HusbandAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Becoming Her HusbandChapter One: Meeting (1956)Ted HugeFlashy AmericanThe "Dairy I"Chapter Two: Romance (1956)The White Goddess: SongPlath's Idyll"To Ariadne, Deserted by Theseus"Chapter Three: His Family (1956)LeoWilliam Henry Hughes (1894-1981)Edith Farrar Hughes (1898-1969)Gerald Hughes (1920- )Chapter Four: Struggling (1956-1963)brRabbit StewSilent StrangersComplicated AnimalsEarth MotherThe Luxury of SolitudeChapter Five: Prospering (1957-1963)MoneyPortrait of the Artist as a Young WomanLiterary LondonHomemakingLiterary LionFertilityChapter Six: Separating (1962- )The Rabbit CatcherHe Said, She SaidChapter Seven: Parting (1962-1963)Plath Turns Thirty: Ariel"Daddy"London on Her OwnDoubletakeChapter Eight: Husbandry (1963-1998)Hughes's TribeHughes's ArielThe Wodwo and the CrowStewardshipChapter Nine: Curing Himself (1967-1998)Knot of ObsessionsSinking into the Folk-TaleFrom Relic Husband to Her HusbandChapter Ten: The Magical Dead (1984-1998)Poet of EnglandThe Drama of CompletionCoda: Naked (1998- )Sources and NotesBibliographyIndex

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