March 14, 2008
Who Remembers Ted Hughes?
A new volume of letters goes unnoticed in America
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 the last days of Plath's life. "I don't mean that I shall become a public shrine of mourning and remorse, I would sooner become the opposite. But if there is an eternity, I am damned in it." Hughes's epic language matched his Promethean
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