Which is to say: They were artists first, spouses second.
… Her lines should be, above all, ‘clear and vivid.’ ” ‘How about another word for ‘hideous’? I’d like better something that showed the eyes hideous, as in the fine ‘Snake’s twisted eye.’ … Hughes responded in kind … he advised her to dispense with unnecessary adjectives. Newly married, the couple were bewitched by the muse each found in the other and yet both maintained a critical approach in their close readings.Īs Clark observes, “Plath criticized Hughes’s poems insightfully and confidently. Halfway through “Red Comet,” Heather Clark’s incandescent, richly researched biography of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), there’s a revelatory anecdote that strikes at the heart of the creative partnership between the poet and her husband, British writer Ted Hughes.
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