Sunday, December 07, 2014

Ted and Sylvia

Work in Progress: The Latest from the Front Lines of Literature
Ted and Sylvia
Gerald Hughes
On Writers
Ted was convinced from an early age that he was going to be a poet, but meeting Sylvia Plath in 1956 intensified his ambitions - and called a halt to his already well-formulated plans to join us in Australia. As he wrote to Olwyn, "I have met a first rate American poetess. She is really good. Certainly one of the best female poets I ever read and a damned sight better than the run of good male . . . for the last month I have lived about the strangest life I ever did live."

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