Volume 45, Number 4 · March 5, 1998

A Family Romance

By James Fenton
Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 198 pp., $20.00

That the myth of Sylvia Plath retains its strength may be seen in some of the responses to Ted Hughes's publication of the present sequence of poems about her. This is from Katharine Viner in the London Guardian:



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