A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
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Kim Bridgford
Kim Bridgford is the director of Poetry by the Sea and the editor of Mezzo Cammin. The author of thirteen books, she is the recipient of grants from the NEA, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. With Russell Goings, she rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange, in celebration of his book The Children of Children Keep Coming, for which she wrote the introduction.
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A Crown for Ted and Sylvia - Kim Bridgford
A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
Kim Bridgford
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Copyright © 2019 Kim Bridgford. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.
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Cover Image: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, England, 1956.
Photograph by Harry Patrick Ogden.
Courtesy of Smith College Special Collections
Ruth Fainlight Letter: The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II, pp. 658-59.
This book is for everyone who has ever been fascinated by the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Even now, over forty years after reading The Bell Jar, I am still in love—and so I offer up this crown.
Friday 6 October 1961
Dear Ruth (Fainlight),
A small note to say you are an angel for the terrific apple recipes & how I hope you are all right. It’s difficult & in a way impertinent to tell you how very much I am wishing things to go well for you, because noone can ever really identify deeply enough with someone else’s special predicament to make the words I know how you feel
carry their full weight . . .
Lots of love,
Sylvia
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