Dec 27, 2009
Sylvia Plath was a pretty, blond American girl with a seemingly placid exterior when Ted Hughes first met her at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, in the winter of 1956. Plath was also an aspiring poet who had won a scholarship. Hughes, too, was an aspiring poet. At first glance one might think it was this mutual interest that brought them together. Their biographies indicate that it was that—and something more. Hughes revisits their first encounter in the seventh of the eighty-eight poems that make up Birthday Letters:
You meant to knock me out
with...
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