Critics quotes - sylvia plath+ted hughes

Warren on plath

"Some of her darkest poems are also the ones that crackle with the most energy, fizzing off the page"

Warren on Plath’s generation

She captures the Malaise of her generation , caught between the aftermath of ww2 and the radical 1960s”

Bate on death

Terrible beauty of death

Bate on nuclear

The treat of nuclear apocalypse hung as a shadow image over many poems

Carey

For many Plath was a feminist martyr

Bate on Plath

Prevailing doom evident in her poetry"

Green on patrons

Patron of sad teenage girls

Carey on plaths drama

But... "critics accuse Plath of exorbitant self-dramatisation"

Warren on tulips

her poems are full of life, and colour, even when the tone is dark and comfortless'

Warren on plaths impotence

She does not flinch from confronting feelings of nihilism and impotence'

Gifford

Plath and Hughes' poetry is reciprocal and cross-pollinated

Bate on Hughes

He himself was part of that landscape, elemental, unchangeable'

ingli James

Hard, northern and metallic' 'Stubborn Yorkshire resistance'

Plath on Hughes

"A very sadistic man" "My black marauder"

Carey on Hughes

the association of animal life with killing and masculinity are constants in his poetry