Diane Middlebrook’s new book, Her Husband, is perhaps the first book about the marriage of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to have a happy ending. The story, in its horrifying particulars, is ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...

A series of unpublished poems handwritten by Ted Hughes in moments of sorrow following the deaths of his partner, Assia Wevill, and their daughter Shura in 1969 will be offered at a week-long online ...

There’s something apt about celebrating the anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death with the republication of Lupercal, which includes such Hughes classics as “Pike” and “Hawk Roosting”. Today, more than ...

In March 1963, a month after the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes wrote an anguished letter to her mother, Aurelia. “I don’t ever want to be forgiven,” he wrote about his role ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...

On July 13, 1957, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes arrived in Cape Cod for their second honeymoon. They had been married for over a year, but their London wedding had been a secret. Now, newly arrived in ...

Ted Hughes was a remarkably prolific writer who produced numerous collections of poetry, translations, dramatic adaptations, criticism, children's books, and radio plays by the time of his death in ...