Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Double-Sided Manuscripts

Title: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Double-Sided Manuscripts
Identifier: d_2009_2013:45d18b99bc35:11137
Creator: Decker, Helen,
Contributor: Wayne Koestenbaum
Date: 2010
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: American literature | English literature
Abstract: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on a sheet of paper in 1956, beginning one of the most important poetic partnerships of the twentieth century. Four months after they met, they married, and began finding and sharing writing places in their small apartments. On their honeymoon, they each created a writing place on the dining room table: the drop-leaf, which split the table into two sides, created a spot for each of them.;While living in Boston, Massachusetts, they each used a desk in front of a window. Paper was another shared place for them to write. The economics of the cost of paper was one of the reasons Plath and Hughes began the process of sharing sheets of paper: her work on one side: his on the other. These pages are in the archives at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts; Harvard University and Indiana University. The double-sided manuscripts remain unexplored in the literary community. In my project, I analyze each Plath and Hughes sheet as a separate piece of archival art, while examining the creative relationship between the poets.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.