Stronger than death
I read Elaine Feinstein’s biography of Ted Hughes during August. It wasn’t flattering; the suicides of Sylvia Plath and then Assia Wevill could hardly cast him in a positive light. The bleak picture has been further compounded by the publication this month of the biography of Assia Wevill.
I wish I hadn’t read the biography and I wish I hadn’t become aware of Assia’s story. Ted Hughes had been a hero for me, not that I ever knew much about him as a person, not that I had even been …