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Title: Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook ISBN: 0-670-03187-9 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage
Comment: The marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has been written about for decades, the riveting aspects of their relationship splashed tabloid style across the pages of popular biographies and recorded for posterity in more scholarly tomes of journals and letters. But Middlebrook (Anne Sexton) offers the reader and Plath/Hughes-ophile something new, exploring their working relationship in terms of their intimate one. Looking into what she refers to as their "call and response" poetry, Middlebrook discovers how some of Hughes's and Plath's most famous poems are linked with or responses to each other's writing. She traces the roots of their literary relationship to the beginning of their romance and continues through to Hughes's death in 1998. By opening up their poetic life, she finds what drew them together and what, in turn, keeps readers fascinated with them. Her impartiality to this polarizing subject is refreshing and perhaps aided by her bicontinental status. Recommended for all literature collections.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't bother reading anything else!
Comment: Having read just about everything on the Plath/Hughes partnership I have to say that Diane Middlebrook's book is simply the best in the lucid intelligence and even-handedness with which she tackles a subject which has hitherto excited a great deal of sensationalistic biography and shallow "analysis" . Her understanding of both poets' work and placement within the culture is a tour de force. I can't praise it highly enough!
Rating: 5
Summary: We did whatever poetry told us to do...
Comment: This is the first biography that doesn't portray Ted Hughes as a monster,
but as a man with weakness like anybody else, although, he may have had more weakness than others. But then, Plath knew this before she married him, didn't she? This may have been a part of the fascination, attraction. After all, Plath was no angel herself.
"Her Husband" begins with the famous 'Meeting'... Plath sees Ted at a party, flirts with him, recites some of his own poetry from across the room.(Now,this would turn a man on!)
He rips off her headband, trys to kiss her, she bites his cheek, drawing blood. A lusty, sexual,intense first meeting. A memorable first meeting. Ted had the scar to prove it.
Middledbrook has broken her book down chronologically...the first meeting,the romance,struggling artists,prospering,
separating,etc...
I have read everything about Plath ... but this book adds new and fresh details into her intriguing life. For instance how she and Ted would annoy one another during the writing process..he picking his nose, she twirling the ends of her hair. Absolutely adore those kind of real-life elements.
"Her Husband" has allowed Ted Hughes to come out into the world as a human being, not just be remembered as the man who betrayed Sylvia Plath, caused her to throw her head into an oven, generated her darkness. No. He was more that that, and that is why Plath loved him.
My favorite chapters are those where Plath and Hughes are together, reading to one another, cooking great meals, talking about literature, having great sex, loving one another.
But... to be honest, Plath would not have written "Ariel" without the darkness and hopelessness that consumed her. She says so fittingling in her poem 'Edge' ... The woman is perfected/her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment.
Did you accomplish what you wanted Sylvia?
Sexton says in the book, "That was my death! She took it before I could." But then she took hers later, didn't she?
Loved "Her Husband" and would recommend it for all who appreciate Plath...
But beware...
you may appreciate Ted Hughes in this one too,
but that's alright.
With him and without him... Plath did her most brilliant work!
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Title: Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker ISBN: 0312315988 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Wintering : A Novel of Sylvia Plath by KATE MOSES ISBN: 1400035007 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Karen V. Kukil, Sylvia Plath ISBN: 0385720254 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Birthday Letters : Poems by Ted Hughes ISBN: 0374525811 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ariel : Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath ISBN: 0060931728 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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