HEATHER CLARK. The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
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Abstract
The publication of a volume of poems by one poet very rarely leads to a flurry of critical activity being devoted to another, especially one dead for 35 years. But that is exactly what happened after the publication of Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes in 1998. Birthday Letters revealed that since the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963 a kind of one-sided conversation between husband and wife, poet and poet, had been going on for decades in the husband’s head. There had been other muted or oblique fragments of that conversation in some of his poems written in the intervening years, but in Birthday Letters the husband finally put it all down as his last word on the matter. Inevitably the new materials stimulated not only interest in Plath, but in a sub-field of Plath and Hughes studies that had lain more or less fallow ever since Margaret Uroff’s ground-breaking study of the two poets together in 1979. Of course, in any study of Plath over the years, Hughes was never far off, but, typically, his presence was seen in one dimension only, either as a loyal servant of the wife’s brilliant but flawed imaginings or, more commonly, as a malign force.
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