Hi, MSB!!
I found some of Sylvia Plath's poetry for you, as we had discussed. This is a really nice link, because it not only leads to other links for her, but plays Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven", a wonderful sad song, if you have musical capacity on your computer.
I don't know how much you know about Plath. She died really young in London, after having stuck her head in an oven. It was one of the coldest winters on record there, 1963, and she was separated from English poet Ted Hughes, and was living suddenly with two small children in a dreary small flat without much money after having lived higher on the hog in a charming English village during her marriage. He left her for another woman, as I recall.
Ted Hughes is now England's Poet Laureate, and has just published a book of poems, called "Birthday Letters", answering some of Plath's poems. The book has been criticized as self serving. After her death, he destroyed her journals, and has never spoken publicly about her or her suicide. Many people don't believe he treated her very well, in any event.
Anyway, here is the link:
duke.edu |
