Friday, October 08, 2010
Sylvia Plath Suicide Poem Discover. Written by...
Ted Hughes.
The Daily Mail has more...
It was the tragic end to a romance between two writers who captivated the public.
Now a newly discovered poem by Ted Hughes has cast fresh light on his torment over the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath.
The harrowing work has been unearthed at the British Library 47 years after Plath gassed herself at the age of 30.
Hughes, a former poet laureate, became a hate figure for feminists after his philandering drove Plath to kill herself in February 1963.
But his previously unpublished work, Last Letter, offers a fresh take on the tragic incident.
The poem was discovered by Melvyn Bragg in the British Library’s Ted Hughes archive with the help of his second wife, Carol Hughes.
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