DescriptionHere is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library. Actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot and from Larkin to Plath.
DescriptionBoth Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath rose above severe mental disorders to create bold new directions for American poetry and share the woman's perspective in distinct, powerful voices. Professor Middlebrook, author of the best selling Anne Sexton: A Biography, sheds light on the unique and important contributions of these poets by examining 4 works: "Morning Song" and "Ariel" by Plath and "The Fortress" and "The Double Image" by Sexton. Her conversations with Professor Lindenberger and an audience further delve into the work and lives of these women, their friendship, and their tragic deaths.
DescriptionTed Hughes was Poet Laureate of England and the husband of American poet Sylvia Plath. His most famous poetic character is the Crow, who serves as a sort of all-knowing being through which Hughes dispenses wit, wisdom, and philosophy.
DescriptionTed Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six-and-a-half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and brought new significance to his poetry. Middlebrook presents a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet, and as a husband haunted, and nourished, his entire life by the aftermath of his first marriage. How marriages fail and how men fail in marriages is one of the book's central themes.
