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.…mehr
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 HusbandAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Becoming Her Husband Chapter One: Meeting (1956) Ted Huge Flashy American The "Dairy I" Chapter Two: Romance (1956) The White Goddess: Song Plath's Idyll "To Ariadne, Deserted by Theseus" Chapter Three: His Family (1956) Leo William Henry Hughes (1894-1981) Edith Farrar Hughes (1898-1969) Gerald Hughes (1920- ) Chapter Four: Struggling (1956-1963)brRabbit Stew Silent Strangers Complicated Animals Earth Mother The Luxury of Solitude Chapter Five: Prospering (1957-1963) Money Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Literary London Homemaking Literary Lion Fertility Chapter Six: Separating (1962- ) The Rabbit Catcher He Said, She Said Chapter Seven: Parting (1962-1963) Plath Turns Thirty: Ariel "Daddy" London on Her Own Doubletake Chapter Eight: Husbandry (1963-1998) Hughes's Tribe Hughes's Ariel The Wodwo and the Crow Stewardship Chapter Nine: Curing Himself (1967-1998) Knot of Obsessions Sinking into the Folk-Tale From Relic Husband to Her Husband Chapter Ten: The Magical Dead (1984-1998) Poet of England The Drama of Completion Coda: Naked (1998- ) Sources and Notes Bibliography Index
Her HusbandAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Becoming Her Husband Chapter One: Meeting (1956) Ted Huge Flashy American The "Dairy I" Chapter Two: Romance (1956) The White Goddess: Song Plath's Idyll "To Ariadne, Deserted by Theseus" Chapter Three: His Family (1956) Leo William Henry Hughes (1894-1981) Edith Farrar Hughes (1898-1969) Gerald Hughes (1920- ) Chapter Four: Struggling (1956-1963)brRabbit Stew Silent Strangers Complicated Animals Earth Mother The Luxury of Solitude Chapter Five: Prospering (1957-1963) Money Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Literary London Homemaking Literary Lion Fertility Chapter Six: Separating (1962- ) The Rabbit Catcher He Said, She Said Chapter Seven: Parting (1962-1963) Plath Turns Thirty: Ariel "Daddy" London on Her Own Doubletake Chapter Eight: Husbandry (1963-1998) Hughes's Tribe Hughes's Ariel The Wodwo and the Crow Stewardship Chapter Nine: Curing Himself (1967-1998) Knot of Obsessions Sinking into the Folk-Tale From Relic Husband to Her Husband Chapter Ten: The Magical Dead (1984-1998) Poet of England The Drama of Completion Coda: Naked (1998- ) Sources and Notes Bibliography Index
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