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Newsweek, April, 2000 by David Gates
Them again? It was only a year or so ago that Ted Hughes, dying of cancer, published "Birthday Letters," poems that broke his 35-year silence about his marriage to Sylvia Plath and her 1963 suicide. Last week 700 pages of Plath's unexpurgated journals were published in England--The New Yorker gave stateside readers a taste--and in Atlanta, Emory University opened two and a half tons of Hughes's papers to scholars. This should keep up the trite old "debate" over how deranged she was versus what a philandering tyrant he was--as if we could ever truly know this gifted, passionate, complicated pair--until Miramax puts out a film with Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia. (That's not a snide joke; it's in development now.)
Hughes printed a third of Plath's journals in 1982, omitting...
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