On arrival, Barrie confirmed Ted and he had indeed been long-standing friends, as was evident from the row of Hughes's published poetry on the bookshelf. But it didn't explain the books jammed in ...

But at its core, her book is more properly an indictment — of both a culture that misreads Plath, and of Plath’s late husband, Ted Hughes, Britain’s longtime poet laureate and, to Van Duyne ...