Plath/ Hughes: Kreative Hochzeit

The portrait that emerges is that of a selfish artist who „lived for poetry, with single-mindedness of the sort he had long ago discerned in W. B. Yeats, the first poet who ever seized his imagination.“ Together, he wrote in a letter quoted in this book, Plath and he found a way to „sacrifice everything to writing.‘ Without each other, he contended, he would probably have wandered off to Australia, and she would have become a professor and written books on the side. He told a friend that the marriage had been „marvelously creative“ for him for half a dozen years. / Michiko Kakutani, NYT 14.10.03

HER HUSBAND
Hughes and Plath: A Marriage
By Diane Middlebrook
361 pages. Viking. $25.95.

Wie üblich bietet die NYT eine Fülle von Besprechungen aus vergangenen Jahren und Leseproben (auch Audio) – für kostenlose Anmeldung.

Hier eine Besprechung der Los Angeles Times*) vom 12.10.03 / Hier aus USA today, 15.10.03 (dort auch ein Auszug aus dem besprochenen Buch)