Article: Confessional poetry & the artifice of honesty.(the marriage of English poet Ted Hughes to American poet Sylvia Plath)

[To] stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head,...

--Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

Honesty, little slut, must you insist On hearing every dirty word I know And all my worst affairs? Are impotence, Insanity, and lying what you lust for? Your hands are cold, feeling me in the dark.

--Edgar Bowers, "To the Contemporary Muse"

Earlier this year, the London Times led the fanfare for Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters with this front-page banner headline: "Revealed: the most tragic literary love story of our time." Hughes's ...

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