Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath: “For the last month I have lived about the strangest life I ever did live” — salon.com

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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