Poets: Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American from a prosperous middle class background whose life was changed for ever when she met Ted Hughes at a party in London. He kissed her on the spot, and they were married four months later, on June 16th, deliberately selected as it was Bloomsday in Joyce's Ulysses. Their relationship was tumultous; Hughes had multiple affairs and Plath suffered from severe depression, but during this period she wrote some of the finest poetry of the twentieth century. Her greatest work came towards the end of her life and was published posthumously in "Ariel". Charlie and Rupert look at her background, her marriage, her tragic death through suicide at the age of 30, and her legacy. Was she a greater poet than her husband? Did she find any joy in her brief life? Book In explores all these issues and much more.