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![]() Saturday, January 17, 1998 Published at 10:36 GMT ![]() ![]() ![]() UK ![]() Hughes breaks silence over Plath ![]() A marriage of two leading poets of the 20th century
One of Britain's best known poets, Ted Hughes, has broken his 35-year silence about the suicide of his first wife, the distinguished American poet, Sylvia Plath.
Critics have said the work shows Hughes as a man deeply in love and tortured by his wife's unstable nature and not as an indifferent betrayer as he has often been depicted.
Plath gassed herself while living in a small London flat at the age of 30. She left behind two children.
Hughes, the British poet laureate, and Plath are two of the most read and studied post-war poets.
As well as poems, Sylvia Plath also wrote an autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, in which she described an earlier suicide attempt.
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