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Ted Hughes and the corpus of Sylvia Plath

Criticism,  Wntr, 1998  by Sarah Churchwell

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(83.) Ibid., 75.

(84.) Plath's "need to reveal" her "true self" is not usually debated; certainly her journals record such a need (although her letters reveal an equally desperate need to conceal her "true self"--and not just to her mother). But what is significant here is Hughes's invocation of Plath's need as justification for his own project.

(85.) Hughes, "The Art of Poetry," 75.

(86.) Ibid., 78.

(87.) Hughes, Introduction to Johnny Panic, 11.

(88.) Hughes, "Sylvia Plath and Her journals," 152.

(89.) Quoted in Malcolm, 143.

(90.) Quoted in ibid., 127.

(91.) Alvarez, "Prologue: Sylvia Plath," 53.

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