396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ultimately, the marital relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was filled with pain and ended in tragedy. At the outset, however, things were very different. Within months of their first meeting at Cambridge, they had fallen in love, gotten married, and started having children - all while writing poetry and supporting one another's art. What did they see in each other as people and as poets? How did they inspire and encourage one another? In this episode, Jacke talks to Plath's biographer Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the creative partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Additional listening: Episode 198 - Sylvia Plath Episode 130 - The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani Episode 95 - The Runaway Poets - The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (A NOTE OF CORRECTION: At one point during this episode, the host mentions the years of Plath's birth and death and gives her age as "sixty." That should, of course, have been "thirty." Please accept our apologies for his singular incompetence.) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and LitHub Radio.
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1:11.3	Where do you come from, Ted?
1:14.3	From originally from Milenroyd in Worcester, Yorkshire, New Hallifax.
1:19.2	What about you, Sylvia?
1:20.2	Well, I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but I think I'm over here in England to stay
1:24.8	now.
1:26.1	Well, somehow and others are meeting between Yorkshire and the United States.
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