Great Writers Series – Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Interview 1961

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, She married fellow poet in Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. They had two children, before separating in 1962.
She died by suicide in 1963.

Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children’s writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.[2] He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.

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  1. Love Sylvia Plath her works studied her works at a level and are beautifully chilling thanks for sharing took me back to my school years x

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