Her Husband

I absolutely love Diane Middlebrook's biography on Anne Sexton.  So when I found out that she did a biography on Sylvia Plath I just had to read it.  I've already read a book on Sylvia Plath a few months ago, along with rereading The Bell Jar and her poems.  I have to admit that I'm not the best reader of poetry.  I find it hard.  I'm in my 30's and just getting into it.  Until I got into Sylvia Plath I never heard about Ted Hughes before. (I'm a beginner.)  I was surprised to find that this book is mostly about Ted Hughes.  It first covers their marriage and the writing process they had when they lived together.  Then the rest of the book is about Ted, his other poetry works, his second marriage, and a few of the flings he had.  I've got to read a book of his poetry.  In Sylvia's lifetime, she was just known as his wife who also wrote.  Now he's living in her shadow.  I think that what he did with her journals was horrible.  He burned one and "lost" the other.  But I don't know if I would have done differently if I was in his shoes.