The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

by Heather Clark and Heather Clark

Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's marriage, few have undertaken a systematic intertextual analysis of the poets' work. The Grief of Influence reappraises this extraordinary literary partnership, and shows that the aesthetic and ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199558191
• ISBN13: 9780199558193
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"