Who Remembers Ted Hughes?

A new volume of letters goes unnoticed in America

By ELAINE SHOWALTER

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...