Informational Links About Plath, Hughes and Sexton

letter from Anne Sexton to Ted Hughes:

http://books.google.com/books?id=o_BpgsXOZqgC&pg=PA307&lpg=PA307&dq=Anne+Sexton+and+Ted+Hughes&source=bl&ots=pfYhOwnRk9&sig=K433AOpACFMDm5YeDYBgo8g06DU&hl=en&ei=6iEDS7LEKMiWlAfm9ejoAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CB0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Anne%20Sexton%20and%20Ted%20Hughes&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Rr7y4CzHFeQC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=Anne+Sexton+and+Ted+Hughes&source=bl&ots=e23DArtiFu&sig=TCtfgbhbUsXskJwxsuJ1w1DZlDc&hl=en&ei=QSIDS_PSIJWtlAfTzMnfAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Anne%20Sexton%20and%20Ted%20Hughes&f=false

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/n_9342/

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,315260,00.html

http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/sylvia-plath-anne-sexton-the-art-the-artists-of-self-destruction-no-1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

article by Anne's daughter about Plath's son's suicide:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/opinion/03sexton.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-155145734.html

article by Plath's and Sexton's biographer:

http://www.radcliffe.edu/print/about/quarterly/sp04_update.htm

"...No doubt there will be additional chapters in the Plath–Hughes saga. In 2023, a sealed trunk in the Hughes archive at Emory will be opened, which could spark new debate about the fiery poets."

"Plath continued prolific writing through high school and won a scholarship to Smith College in 1950 where she met her friend Anne Sexton. Sexton often joined Plath for martinis at the Ritz where they shared poetry and intellectualized discussions about death. Although they were friends, there was also an element of competition between Sexton and Plath. Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" was possibly a response to Anne Sexton's "My Friend, My Friend." It was as if Plath was commenting that her writing skills were just a bit better than Sexton's. Sexton frequently would express to Robert Lowell in his poetry class her dissatisfaction with Plath's writing. She said that Plath "dodges the point in her poetry and hadn't yet found the form that belonged to her." The competitive nature of their relationship continued to the very end."

from: (quick view)

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:zQlfuGL3fC0Jndix.com/pdf/docs/studies_research_1071115966.pdf+Plath,+Sexton+and+Hughes+relationship&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AFQjCNHgKxM3nTH0MfawOIUhopCLzfpIsQ

- and - (PDF file)

http://ondix.com/pdf/docs/studies_research_1071115966.pdf

Plath's psychiatric records released:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-12112469.html

http://en.allexperts.com/e/s/sy/sylvia_plath.htm

http://www.arlindo-correia.com/040404.html

http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/plath-sylvia

Hughes:

http://www.arlindo-correia.com/080404.html

http://www.keithsagar.co.uk/tedhughes.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3344

http://www.biography.com/articles/Ted-Hughes-9346422

http://www.zeta.org.au/~annskea/Emory.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thughes.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/24/death-of-ted-hughes-drove_n_178774.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/ted-hughes/biography/

http://www.ted-hughes.net/downloads/crit_bere.pdf

http://ted-hughes.net/crit_bere.html

http://www.elainefeinstein.com/TedHughes-Devon.shtml

http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/books/ted_hughes.htm

http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSE/article/viewFile/560/529

Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-other-tragic-woman-in-the-life-of-ted-hughes-468853.html

http://seriealfa.com/tigre/tigre3/hughes.htm

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12769016/Birthday-Letters-by-Ted-Hughes-5-Star-Review

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-159927284/dark-star-gripping-new.html

http://memoryanddesire.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/assias-dior-a-m.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=EVwa4P1KqlEC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=Ted+Hughes+Dreamers&source=bl&ots=p1rP0pte-V&sig=CYwFFwSLB7MwxTJYzg7BLAiastc&hl=en&ei=gioDS8nkO4mvlAeUju3dAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Ted%20Hughes%20Dreamers&f=false

"The Other"

by Ted Hughes 

She had too much so with a smile you took some. 
Of everything she had you had 
Absolutely nothing, so you took some. 
At first, just a little. 


Still she had so much she made you feel 
Your vacuum, which nature abhorred, 
So you took your fill, for nature's sake. 
Because her great luck made you feel unlucky 
You had redressed the balance, which meant 
Now you had some too, for yourself. 
As seemed only fair. Still her ambition 
Claimed the natural right to screw you up 
Like a crossed-out page, tossed into a basket. 
Somebody, on behalf of the gods, 
Had to correct that hubris. 
A little touch of hatred steadied the nerves. 


Everything she had won, the happiness of it, 
You collected 
As your compensation 
For having lost. Which left her absolutely 
Nothing. Even her life was 
Trapped in the heap you took. She had nothing. 
Too late you saw what had happened. 
It made no difference that she was dead. 
Now that you had all she had ever had 
You had much too much. 
Only you 
Saw her smile, as she took some. 
At first, just a little.


source:

http://blueeverest.blogspot.com/2004/11/ted-hughes-other.html