Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30.

At the party he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship.

There was a great mutual attraction but they did not meet again for another month, when Plath was passing through London on her way to Paris.

Plath's gravestone was repeatedly vandalized by those aggrieved that " Hughes " is written on the stone and attempted to chisel it off, leaving only the name " Sylvia Plath.

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The American poet Sylvia Plath, who was married to Ted Hughes from nearby Mytholmroyd, is buried in the new St. Thomas a ' Beckett's churchyard.

The term Extremist Art was first used by the poet A. Alvarez to describe the work of the American poet Sylvia Plath.

The poet Sylvia Plath was known to admire McCullers ' work, and the unusual phrase " silver and exact ", used by McCullers to describe a set of train tracks in the novel, is the first line of Plath's poem " Mirror ".

Plath was rejected from a Harvard course taught by Frank O ' Connor.

Plath was a patient at McLean Hospital, an upscale facility which resembled the " snake pit " much less than certain wards in Metropolitan State Hospital, which may have been where Mary Jane Ward was actually hospitalized.

Ted Hughes, former poet laureate of England and widower of the poet Sylvia Plath, was directly related to Nicholas Ferrar on his mother's side.

In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time ( and which her husband would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later ), stating, " I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say, Robert Lowell's Life Studies, this intense breakthrough into very serious, very personal, emotional experience which I feel has been partly taboo.

Sylvia Plath submitted forty-five pieces to Seventeen before her first short story, " And Summer Will Not Come Again ", was published in the August 1950 issue.

John Berryman ( 1914 – 1972 ) and Robert Lowell ( 1917 – 1977 ) were the leading lights in what was to become known as the Confessional movement, which was to have a strong influence on later poets like Sylvia Plath ( 1932 – 1963 ) and Anne Sexton ( 1928 – 1974 ).

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, Plath developed a precocious talent as a writer, publishing her first poem when she was only eight years old.

That same year, tragedy introduced itself into her life as Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father.

Plath survived, and, in 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at the University of Cambridge.

Hecht spent three months in hospital following his breakdown, although he was spared electric shock therapy, unlike Sylvia Plath, whom he had encountered while teaching at Smith College.

Having Lowell write the introduction to the book was appropriate, since, in a BBC Interview, Plath cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing in this last phase of her writing career.

In the same interview, Plath also cited the poet Anne Sexton as an important influence on her writing during this time since Sexton was also exploring some of the same dark, taboo, personal subject matter that Plath was exploring in her writing.

As a characteristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, Sylvia Plath, in her poem " Cut ", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to the running of a million soldiers, " redcoats, every one "; and, enabling Robert Frost, in " The Road Not Taken ", to compare one's life to a journey.

Reflecting later in Birthday Letters, Hughes commented that early on he could see chasms of difference between himself and Plath, but that in the first years of their marriage they both felt happy and supported, avidly pursuing their writing careers.

According to her husband, Plath began writing the novel in 1961, after publishing her first collection of poetry, The Colossus.

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This could also mean that Plath is through with dealing with these painful memories and living with these thoughts going through her mind since she commits suicide a mere 4 months after writing this poem.

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

* The Bell Jar ( 1963 ) by Sylvia Plath, her semi-autobiographical novel, detailing a young girl's attempts at suicides and her mental breakdown.

A good portion of this part of the novel closely resembles the experiences chronicled by Mary Jane Ward in her autobiographical novel The Snake Pit ; Plath later stated that she'd seen reviews of The Snake Pit and believed the public wanted to see " mental health stuff ," so she deliberately based details of Esther's hospitalization on the procedures and methods outlined in Ward's book.

* The Bell Jar, 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a fictionalised account of Plath's own struggles with depression

In December 1996 the US corporation Litton Industries bought Racal-Decca Marine, as well as Sperry Marine and C. Plath, in order to strengthen their marine electronics position under the Litton Marine Systems name.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

* 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet ( d. 1963 )

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His part in the relationship became controversial to some feminists and ( particularly ) American admirers of Plath.

Hughes and Plath dated and then were married at St George the Martyr Holborn, on 16 June 1956, four months after they had first met.

Hughes's biographers note that Plath did not relate her history of depression and suicide to him until much later.

Plath typed up Hughes ' manuscript for his collection Hawk In The Rain which went on to win a poetry competition run by the Poetry centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York.

The couple moved to America so that Plath could take a teaching position at her alma mater, Smith College ; during this time Hughes taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Hughes and Plath had two children, Frieda Rebecca ( 1960 ) and Nicholas Farrar ( 1962 ) and in 1961, bought the house Court Green, in North Tawton, Devon.

Under a cloud of his affair, Hughes and Plath separated in the autumn of 1962 and she set up life in a new flat with the children.

Beset by depression, and with a history of suicide attempts, Plath took her own life on 11 February 1963, although it is unclear whether she meant to ultimately succeed.

" Some feminists argued that Hughes had driven Plath to suicide.

" In 1970, radical feminist poet Robin Morgan published the poem " Arraignment ", in which she openly accused Hughes of the battery and murder of Plath ; other feminists threatened to kill him in Plath's name.

In the years soon after death, when scholars approached me, I tried to take their apparently serious concern for the truth about Sylvia Plath seriously.

In general, my refusal to have anything to do with the Plath Fantasia has been regarded as an attempt to suppress Free Speech ... The Fantasia about Sylvia Plath is more needed than the facts.

As Plath's widower, Hughes became the executor of Plath ’ s personal and literary estates.