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 relation...more

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Published August 31st 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 2003)

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Mar 04, 2008 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Plath/Hughes fans

When I first began reading Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband, I was disappointed.

"This is all the stuff I already know," I thought. "St. Botolph's...black marauder...pushy American girl...I've read this all before. Where's the new stuff?"

Plath fans like myself, who've read every biography and scrutinized every poem, need to hang in there for a bit. It takes a while to tap the riches in this book, but once you hit pay dirt, you'll be buried in it. You can expect nothing less from Diane Middlebrook'...more When I first began reading Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband, I was disappointed.

"This is all the stuff I already know," I thought. "St. Botolph's...black marauder...pushy American girl...I've read this all before. Where's the new stuff?"

Plath fans like myself, who've read every biography and scrutinized every poem, need to hang in there for a bit. It takes a while to tap the riches in this book, but once you hit pay dirt, you'll be buried in it. You can expect nothing less from Diane Middlebrook's exhaustive research and crisp, yet sensitive writing.

The book is essentially a biography of Ted Hughes, but it is a biography of Hughes in relation to Plath -- possibly the only kind of biography that could ever be written about Ted Hughes.

Middlebrook takes what has been said over and over about Hughes and Plath -- that they were larger-than-life, highly charismatic, very intense people -- and digs deep with research and literary analysis. The result is two fully-fleshed mythical figures, with the history of -- and reasons for -- the shaping of their mythic status.

Speaking of the literary analysis, it is incredibly detailed, dissected to a dizzying extent. Middlebrook is quite a scholar, and makes bold connections between various Plath and Hughes poems (some of which were written on opposite sides of the same piece of paper -- a practice Middlebrook calls Plath & Hughes's "hand-to-hand combat"). The poems take on squirming new life in the illumination Middlebrook provides.

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were complex, inscrutable people. They believed their relationship was fated, and that indeed seems to have been the case. They goaded each other to produce writing that was better and more unique than anything else being written at the time. The destruction of their marriage was the catalyst for Plath's final poems, the ones that would guarantee her immortality.

It's hard to know how to feel about Ted Hughes. I have a lot more interest in, and respect for, him after reading this book. (See my 2008 review of Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev's A Lover of Unreason to see what I think of Hughes now.) One thing is certain -- he is the only man who could have endured life in the shadow of Sylvia Plath. A hunter, a creator of myths, only his questing, questioning nature could have been strong enough to stand up to all Plath threw at him, in life and in death.(less)

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May 15, 2007 Maythee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: those who enjoy learning about famous relationships & those interested in writers' lives

Middlebrook offers a very different type of biography here. The story is told through the passionate yet tumultuous love relationship Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes had. I was really caught up in learning how they met, what their early marriage was like, and how they felt about writing in the process. For example, their writing rituals were really intricate and required a lot of negotiation in terms of their personal lives. Similarly, Middlebrook explains the background that motivated their vario...more

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Aug 12, 2012 Anita Dalton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-we-own, biography, non-fiction

This book was not what I thought it was going to be. When the title involves the word "marriage" I expect a little more of actual information about the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Instead of actual events from their marriage, we get lots of literary analyses of how their poetry echoed and reacted to each other.

That's all well and good but this book leaves out huge amounts of actual details from the writers' lives. Even the discussion of the poetry was shallow because there was a wea...more

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Feb 26, 2010 Kristiana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, at-work, non-fiction

This portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's marriage is an interesting look at their lives and their work as writers. The effect each had on the other's work is fascinating. Hughes and Plath's focus and dedication to their work and the work of the other is the theme that the author follows throughout the biography.

During their marriage Plath typed Hughes's work for him, every place they resided had a place where they would work - much of the time sharing a work place and sometimes using one a...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not really knowing that much about Plath and Hughes apart from the basic facts this book was a mine of information, I always thought sylvia committed suicide because of Hughes afair but she had suffered from a breakdown before even meeting Hughes. I was shocked to know what a womaniser Hughes was and how he cheated on all his partners and wives, it was also strange that the women who he left Plath for also suffered from depression and mental problems.There was obviously something about these wo...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Leanna rated it 3 of 5 stars

A pretty interesting account of the Plath-Hughes marriage and Hughes' efforts, after her death, to come to terms with her significance in his life. I have to say I was astonished by the number of affairs Hughes had with women throughout his life--he sure doesn't seem to take the ol' marriage bond too seriously. I couldn't believe how many times he cheated on his various wives. So, lots of juicy detail here. I did think the author drew too much from Hughes' final book, "Birthday Letters," in anal...more

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Jan 02, 2009 Ingrid Lola rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book. Diane Middlebrook approaches the subject respectfully and without bias. I found it interesting because it really discusses the ins and outs of the marriage between Plath and Hughes, focusing specifically on the creative connection they felt with each other. The book is organized chronologically in stages of the relationship. It's not a typical biography.

Middlebrook has a flowing writing style that made this book fun to read. You can tell she understands the importance of words...more

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Sep 16, 2009 Kate Heath rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is my first book to concern Plath or Hughes. While a lot of their history is available, I think this book looks at Hughes objectively, not resulting to arguing he cause Plath's breakdown. I mean the woman was brilliant but troubled. It was inevitable for her.

Their relationship reminded me of Wuthering Heights--Hughes the dark, brooding and at times cruel Yorkishireman to her frail Cathy, immersed in him. It is a symbiosis of creativity and talent that linked them and forever bound them toge...more

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Aug 09, 2011 Hayfa Qahtani rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is not a biography , its a life on its own.
I havent read a book as intense as this , the last book I felt strongly attached to was Gabriel Garcia Marquez: living to tell the tale, and this book really topped it.
why ?
at first glance you might think this will be totally dedicated to Hughes's life with Sylvia Plath on his own perspective.
well . . you are mistaken my friend.
I thought I knew Plath, even a little, to say she is a favorable poet of mine, an icon, though finished her life agai...more This is not a biography , its a life on its own.
I havent read a book as intense as this , the last book I felt strongly attached to was Gabriel Garcia Marquez: living to tell the tale, and this book really topped it.
why ?
at first glance you might think this will be totally dedicated to Hughes's life with Sylvia Plath on his own perspective.
well . . you are mistaken my friend.
I thought I knew Plath, even a little, to say she is a favorable poet of mine, an icon, though finished her life against God will and against the will of her loved ones.
but yet she is an icon, not because she sits beside Emily Dickinson on the american female poetry throne, but because she is Sylvia, a combination of lives in one person, a puzzle no one "but no one" would ever predict or solve.
this book was an attempt to solve Sylvia puzzle through Hughes window. this is the most literary productive marriages in the history of modern " or ever " world.
they wrote, published, gone mad together, until Hughes gone further mad and cheated on her . .
this is not a book of pointing fingers or looking for who's fault is it that Sylvia left this world on purpose .
the book tells their story, goes deep back in their pasts, present and future!
what really fascinates me about the book is its ability of being a regular reader book, as if you are looking to two normal people , unknown, but have issues , and reach the end of it with hughes death in 1998.
another aimed to reader is the literary critic, you will find poems detailed explanation, and other writings by the two writers.
You will get an understanding on why and when each piece was written.
the third approach is for psychological interested people, this is the last one of which I have realized, I bet there is even more.
you will be astonished on how much you "DONT" know about them, the writer made a great job, I couldn't believe the book ended, the ending music made me sure its done. Sadly I moved the headphone away and looked to the stained glass , gladly , shocked. . and loving the knowledge I gained , the books I am ought to buy . . and the life experience I lived and it wasn't mine . . .
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Mar 25, 2012 Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars

Where to begin? I have lived with the works of these two colossal poets since undergraduate college. I've never taken sides in the great Plath-Hughes divide, precisely because I equally value their poems.

This book came out quite a few years ago, and even though I admired the author's biography of the poet Anne Sexton, I was hesitant to pick it up. What changed my mind? Negative reviews complaining that it was more about the poetry they created with and about each other than the gossipy drama tha...more Where to begin? I have lived with the works of these two colossal poets since undergraduate college. I've never taken sides in the great Plath-Hughes divide, precisely because I equally value their poems.

This book came out quite a few years ago, and even though I admired the author's biography of the poet Anne Sexton, I was hesitant to pick it up. What changed my mind? Negative reviews complaining that it was more about the poetry they created with and about each other than the gossipy drama that surrounds their lives. That's exactly what I was looking for!

Middlebrook is a keen reader of poetry. Some critics complained that Hughes was rag-picking images and phrases from Plath's work in his last collection of poetry, Birthday Letters. Middlebrook shows they were influencing each other all along. Plath's "Sow" and "Mushrooms" are clear examples of what she got from Hughes--her husband.

Her Husband is the title of the book, and it does seem to be more about Hughes than Plath. But then he lived longer. There is a noticeable peculiarity. Like Elaine Feinstein, who wrote an excellent biography of Hughes, Middlebrook seems fascinated by the Yorkshire poet's sexual fascism. Both of these accomplished, professional women focus sharply on his animal sexual appetites and number of lovers; the very things that are suppose to repel feminists away from Hughes. Middlebrook actually catalogs every mention Plath makes of Hughes' strong smell!

Middlebrook is probably best writing about the Birthday Letters--poems Ted wrote to Sylvia for years after her death but did not publish until the end of his life. These poems tempt us to Hughes' "side." Because they are mature, reflective, even self-incriminating in a way that Plath never grew up to be.

Suddenly I read all this--
Your actual words, as they floated
Out through your throat and tongue and onto your page-

I look up--as if to meet your voice
With all its urgent future
That has burst in on me. Then look back
At the book of the printed words.
You are ten years dead. It is only a story.
Your story. My story.

Spouses cheat. Marriages fall apart. But Plath and Hughes were the most productive and accomplished husband and wife partnership in English letters since Mary and Percy Shelley.

Middlebrook's rather massive achievement is so rich it begs a second or third reading. She writes: "You recognize what Hughes wants from you, the only thing the living can give to the magical dead: empathetic but pitiless attention."(less)

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Apr 05, 2009 Janellyn51 rated it 3 of 5 stars

I've always been somehow more intrigued by Ted Hughes than Plath herself. I was truly saddened to see recently that thier son Nicholas comitted suicide. The Plath/Hughes thing is becoming something akin to the Kennedy curse of Poets....I don't like it. It's pretty horrifying to think of all the death and destruction Hughes purportedly caused with his infidelites....but I haven't got much to say for someone who sticks her head in an oven without head to the emotional baggage her children will hav...more

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Apr 08, 2007 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read and reviewed this book for the Times-Picayune. It was interesting to reflect more upon Ted Hughes and also seriously consider their work side by side, but I wasn't blown away like I was by Janet Malcolm's book.

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May 07, 2012 Zhi Xin Lee rated it 5 of 5 stars

I remember I loved this. Plath is obviously a literary figure that draws a lot of attention-- half of a poet couple, cheated upon, committed suicide by putting her head in an oven, and most importantly, creator of gorgeous poetry. Together with Hudges, another literary heavyweight, you get a black hole endlessly hungry for your curiosity. This book covered all bases, which is the only way you should go about a biography; poetry was brought in and analysed in relation to real-life figures and the...more

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Mar 02, 2012 Caley added it

For a biography with such a stellar beginning and middle run, Wood Middlebrook so disastrously dropped the ending on this one that I lost interest and respect for the entire book. The overt and sometimes sophomoric literary theory arguments were manageable in the first 200 pages, but by page 300 the astrological/shamanistic/whatthehellisshetalkingabout analysis is just too much, and just too... undergraduate. I give kudos to Wood Middlebrook for tastefully adding depth to a frequently one-sided...more

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Dec 01, 2012 Cassandra rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-misc

This book had it's fair share of flaws, but it also presented the story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in an accessible and intimate narrative that would definitely appeal to a massive audience. Middlebrook works in lots of details and imagery to the point that some parts of the book read more like a novel than a biography. She consistently reinforces the assertion that "writing is sexy, sexy is violent, writing is violent" (19). Her themes of sex, food, violence, anger, and sensory perceptions...more This book had it's fair share of flaws, but it also presented the story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in an accessible and intimate narrative that would definitely appeal to a massive audience. Middlebrook works in lots of details and imagery to the point that some parts of the book read more like a novel than a biography. She consistently reinforces the assertion that "writing is sexy, sexy is violent, writing is violent" (19). Her themes of sex, food, violence, anger, and sensory perceptions played into this argument very well. She also does a great job of expressing the difficulty Plath had in weaving her own subjective experiences into text. Middlebrook should also be commended for equally dividing her focus between Plath and Hughes, which must have difficult to write.

Middlebrook weaves Plath's and Hughes's poetry throughout the narrative. Unfortunately, she does this in fragments that sometimes left me wanting more. I feel like I should have had the complete works of both poets handy while I was reading this book - just for reference and context. Another major flaw was the author's scant use of citations. She would often argue that her interpretation greatly differed from previous biographers of Plath...but she failed to ever cite who these other biographers actually are or when these flawed interpretations were written. Such an oversight is difficult to overlook.

Middlebrook's casual tone sometimes worked against her. She would often pose first person questions and speculations when her narrative had a gap in action or insight. While a popular audience might have enjoyed the interactive nature of this style, I found it particularly grating. I also found her use of psychohistory overly dramatic and rambling. Psychology should play an important part in any biography of Sylvia Plath, but Middlebrook used a particularly heavy handed interpretation.

I would recommend this to a casual reader who is vaguely interested in poetry. If you have a decent grasp of history or literature, you would probably find this book simply acceptable. If you're a hipster who wants to seem deep, this might be your new holy text.(less)

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May 18, 2013 Courtney Gustafson rated it 2 of 5 stars

Full disclosure: This was my second attempt at this book, after stalling around page 50 several years ago. I made it through the entirety of the book this time (barely and with some skimming toward the end) but I didn't like it any better.

My main problem with this book is in its framing of Plath, though I acknowledge that it never claims to be Plath biography. The book is aptly titled "Her Husband" and that is exactly what it is about: this is a biography of a marriage, a charting of a relation...more

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May 21, 2010 Louise rated it 4 of 5 stars

Someone on Amazon said that Middlebrook shies away from talking about the dissolution of the Plath/Hughes marriage as to seem impartial. I don't agree, really. I think that, yes, she was being impartial, but I felt she addressed the subject objectively and at length. While there were certainly things that made me bristle, I actually think Middlebrook did a good job explaining how both Plath and Hughes could be difficult, could be brilliant and passionate and how neither of them were entirely at...more

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Nov 21, 2009 Suna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, gave-up, ted-hughes

Half-Read. I stopped. It's incredibly well researched and written with great skill and confidence in the subject matter.
You can easily detect the writer's affinity with both individual poets and their work. Her literary observations on both Plath's and Hughes' poems are very astute as well.
In fact, I think it's an utterly vital read if you are either a Plathian or a Hughsian, or -more rare occurrence- both.

But I realized that I was gaining insights that would spring to mind whilst reading speci...more

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Mar 30, 2010 Jamie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: life-writing-biographies, read-in-2010

Just finished re-reading this one; was perhaps very slightly less impressed on this go round, but I still believe Middlebrook to be an incredible biographer, and this particular text to be the shining star of the Plath/Hughes biographical warzone. If you're looking for the whole picture, you will be unfortunately let down; this is, as the title suggests, a portrait of the Plath/Hughes marriage, and so we get very little of their earlier history, and the last several chapters are concerned with H...more Just finished re-reading this one; was perhaps very slightly less impressed on this go round, but I still believe Middlebrook to be an incredible biographer, and this particular text to be the shining star of the Plath/Hughes biographical warzone. If you're looking for the whole picture, you will be unfortunately let down; this is, as the title suggests, a portrait of the Plath/Hughes marriage, and so we get very little of their earlier history, and the last several chapters are concerned with Hughes after Sylvia's death--who he fucked, what he wrote, when he got sad, how Birthday Letters came about. Like me, you may be surprised to be hit with Sylvia's death so soon--I guess I have this wonderful, magical-thinking tendency to believe that perhaps if I wish hard enough, the outcome of a biography will be different as I work my way through it. But alas, the same sad occurrences transpired, and I was left heartbroken yet again (I just need to stop reading biographies of the young-dead; I was depressed after Flannery died, and then again when I re-read Middlebrook's Sexton biography a couple months ago).

My one quandary with this text is the same one I had with Middlebrook's bio on Anne Sexton; in both cases, Middlebrook relies a bit too uncritically on the poems to illuminate 'themes' she finds self-evident in the biographies. This was actually a bit less problematic with Anne, because at least then, it was *her* writing that was 'illuminative.' Middlebrook uses Birthday Letters here at times to 'reveal' the experiences of the Plath/Hughes union, which I suppose, Bday Letters in fact sets out to do--but I find that book of poetry to be almost unethical in a perhaps too personally-invested way. It truly troubles me that Hughes uses his final volume to 'correct' Plath's biographical and (more frightening) poetic legacy; the woman can't speak back to any of it, and so when, for example, he revises her poem "The Rabbit Catcher" to suggest that, instead of an invasive male violence inflicted on nature, the real problem is Plath's poetic rage--I can hardly articulate well at this point, because it enrages me. We all want forgiveness, and Hughes certainly had his share of hardships from the Plath-camp; but I still find it incredibly insidious that he's revised her narratives in an appropriative and somewhat violent way. So Middlebrook's reliance on that text at moments in this bio likewise frightens me, but only on principle.

Largely, the reason this is so great an example of biography is that Middlebrook really manages to traverse the landmines of this particularly literary iconography in a mostly fair and powerful way. Both Plath and Hughes emerge as sometimes good, sometimes horrible, but always human figures. Middlebrook is also a really great, engaging writer, so you'll find yourself speeding through this in a way that some of the drier biographies (I'm looking at you, Anne Stevenson) simply can't compel you to do.

Even if you're not all that interested in this love affair, this is, bottom line, just a really wonderful biography. Highly recommended, but particularly if you're seeking a 'good' one on Plath and Hughes. Now I just need to finally crack into Malcom's The Silent Woman and Rose's The Haunting of SP.(less)

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Sep 23, 2008 Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry

Night they met at party: He kissed her, she bit him on the cheek and drew blood. He liked this wildness in her.

3 years earlier she had shock treatment for depression - subject of the Bell Jar.

They had a passionate, wildly sexual relationship "went in a barrel together over some Niagara"

Quickly married, live in England, then to the US where they taught, then back to England

"Plath also viewed cooking as a practice that advanced her aim of developing a writing style grounded in womanly experience."...more

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Mar 24, 2011 Kate is currently reading it

So far it is kind of depressing, but that is not surprising. I do get a little annoyed with the author's seeming obsession over whether or not Sylvia was "pretty", and her fascination with her mental health as an almost mystical condition- it's depression, and what does it matter if she is pretty or not? People are always more fascinated with beautiful depressed people, as opposed to normal ones. I suppose it is more "tragic" that way.

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Aug 19, 2009 Martha rated it 3 of 5 stars

A fascinating study of the symbiotic relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The tragic lives of these two are presented in a matter-of-fact way, because the focus of this book is the inspiration that each brought to the other of this partnership. This is not a "light" read, as Diane Middlebrook goes rather deeply into the imagery and symbolism of the works of both poets/authors.

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Feb 11, 2013 Monica rated it 4 of 5 stars

I found this book fascinating- especially trying to understand how two poets/writers influence one another artistically when they are also passionately and destructively in love. Plath is an unbelievable role model as a woman writer- writing most of her work between the hours of 3-5 am while being a single parent.

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May 16, 2009 Brandon Barrett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Picked up this title on a whim, enjoyed it tremendously. Diane Middlebrook is easily one of the best biographers of her generation, easily seeing the Hughes/Plath union from multiple angles and timeframes. I learned quite a bit about their lives and careers, read it if you enjoy the work of either poet.

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Dec 06, 2010 Autumn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

Heartbreaking and honest--with no agenda toward either extraordinary poet. It shows how the very qualities that attracted Plath to Hughes were also the downfall of their marriage. Includes snippets of their poems and analysis on how events in their marriage affected their poetry.

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Apr 20, 2012 Steph degaitis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Intense story of their relationship, and how dependent they were on each other, and intertwined they were while married and writing together. Things changed once the children arrived, but still a great peak into the lives and works of 2 brilliant writers.

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Mar 19, 2013 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2013

Really fascinating, and usually well-balanced biography.

I have long been fascinated by Plath, and have to admit that I had little interest in Hughes - this biography manages to make Hughes as fascinating as Plath. The man was clearly flawed, but also extremely talented, and it makes me wonder how anyone could deal with the suicide of two partners, one of which also included the murder of his own child.

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Jun 22, 2012 Brooke Bove rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, nonfiction

It was kind of dumb of me to read a book about Ted Hughes when all I am really interested in is the tidbits about Sylvia Plath. Therefore I blame myself for the fact that I found this book very boring.

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Jun 06, 2010 Sharonm rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reads like a doctoral dissertation of poetry analysis. Ostensibly a biography of Sylvia Plath’s marriage and her husband, Ted Hughes, it really is literary analysis of his poetry. Deadly boring.

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May 21, 2012 Shannon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Although I enjoy anything related to Plath, it seems as though the person writing this focused on quite a bit of the negatives. It was still rather interesting to read.

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