Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes

• 'Hughes poems do not deal with the search for identity that fascinated Plath' - Uroff
• "Hughes appears more fascinated with death and deadliness than does Plath" - uroff
• "a world that Hughes's poems tended to view through the eye of the predator, Plath's through the eye of the victim" - Norton
• Hughes "lacks the originality and sharpness of Plath' poetry." - Oats
• "Hughes and Plath wrote from one 'shared mind'." - Middlebrook
• ‘the primal substance of Ted’s childhood was rock, that of Sylvia’s was water’ - Bate