“Only Did What Poetry Told Us To Do:” A Portrait of Sylvia Plath On Honeymoon With Ted Hughes

Published Oct 31 2020 at 2:47 PM GMT

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Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a whirlwind courtship.
They were both ambitious, and hoped to become the leading poets of their generation.
But what began as a Shakespearean “marriage….