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100 1 $aMiddlebrook, Diane Wood,$d1939-2007.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79116459
245 10 $aHer husband :$bHughes and Plath--a marriage /$cDiane Middlebrook.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2003.
300 $axx, 361 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-350) and index.
520 1 $a"Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and brought new significance to his poetry." "In this new biography of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook presents a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted - and nourished - his entire life by the aftermath of his first marriage. How marriages fail and how men fail in marriages is one of the book's central themes." "Drawing on a trove of newly available papers, Middlebrook presents Hughes as a complicated, conflicted figure: sexually magnetic, fiercely ambitious, immensely caring, and shrewd in business. She argues that Plath's suicide, though it devastated Hughes and made him vulnerable to the savage attacks of Plath's growing readership, ultimately gave him his true subject - re-creating himself for posterity through his marriage to Sylvia Plath and his struggles within his own historical circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHughes, Ted,$d1930-1998$xMarriage.
600 10 $aPlath, Sylvia$xMarriage.
650 0 $aPoets, English$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109426
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109267
650 0 $aMarried people$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107473
650 0 $aAuthors' spouses$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101592
852 00 $bbar$hPR6058.U37$iZ76 2003
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR6058.U37$iZ76 2003