{"product_id":"the-grief-of-influence-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-9780199558193","title":"The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes","description":"Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's marriage, few have undertaken a systematic\u003cbr\u003eintertextual analysis of the poets' work. \u003cem\u003eThe Grief of Influence\u003c\/em\u003e reappraises this extraordinary literary partnership, and shows that the aesthetic and ideological similarities that provided a foundation for Plath's and Hughes's creative marriage - such as their mutual fascination with D. H. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003eand motifs of violence and war - intensified their artistic rivalry. Through close readings of both poets' work and analysis of new archival sources, Clark reveals for the first time how extensively Plath borrowed from Hughes and Hughes borrowed from Plath. She also explores the transatlantic\u003cbr\u003edynamics of Plath's and Hughes's 'colonial' marriage within the context of the 1950s Anglo-American poetry scene and demonstrates how each poet's misreadings of the other contributed to the damaging stereotypes that now dominate the Plath-Hughes mythology. Following Plath and Hughes through\u003cbr\u003ealternating periods of collaboration and competition, \u003cem\u003eThe Grief of Influence \u003c\/em\u003eshows how each poet forged a voice both through and against the other's, and offers a new assessment of the twentieth century's most important poetic partnership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199558193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Literature at Marlboro College and teaches Irish Studies at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2006), which won the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book and the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emory University's Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library, and reviews Irish poetry regularly for the \u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934222499955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4a287b46-7cdb-4349-8752-e35f330b5505.jpg?v=1647878151","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-grief-of-influence-sylvia-plath-and-ted-hughes-9780199558193","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}