the plath-hughes project | part of tant mieux - sotto voce

welcome to the plath-hughes project

2006-10-05T08:10:00.000-07:00

three sylvias

Welcome to the Plath-Hughes tant mieux project. Find articles about Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and their friends and other lovers, as well as book reviews, biography reviews, film comments, work and analysis of their poetry and much, much more. This site is brand new and being updated on a regular basis. Please check back over the course of the next month for updates. We will also be including links to other Plath sites. If you have a site and want to link to us, please do, just let us know. Thanks for visiting.

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plath online in France

2005-10-06T17:09:00.000-07:00

A French Sylvia Plath page. If you know of or have your own Plath - Hughes page, please send me the links and feel free to link back to this page, The Plath Hughes Project. Contact editor Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti

Plath France http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/plath1.htm

This is an interesting site and is in French, bien sur. If you do not speak French, you can use Babelfish Translating Services to translate the page for you. You can find Babelfish by searching in Google and then entering the URL. Select French to English or whatever language you want and the page will be automatically translated for you. -

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sylvia plath | ted hughes links

2005-10-05T14:34:00.000-07:00

Below are a few links that i've found for Plath and Hughes. If you have a link or know of a link, be sure to send them to me by going to www.tantmieux.squarespace.com and using the Contact link. Also, feel free to link back to The Plath-Hughes Project part of tant mieux.

sadi ranson-polizzotti autumn 2004

Plath Online click here.
Sylvia Plath Poetry Home Page click here.
Listen to Sylvia Plath Read complete resources click here.
A Wind of Such Violence sylvia plath page click here.
More tant mieux articles by sadi ranson-polizzotti, click here.
Sylvia Plath Forum, click here.
Sylvia Plath France, click here.
Plagarist Poetry X poetry forum with articles, poems and much, much more, click here.

Expression, Discussion, Reflection - Email sadi

2005-01-28T17:19:00.000-08:00

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sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - voices carry | the tone of sylvia plath

2004-11-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

A voice conveys so much about a person. I know as an immigrant, both the plus and the minus of this and I know that when I first came to the states, I would have done anything to get rid of an accent that brought me nothing but mostly grief, save for the occasional comment (that I still get) that it's "cute" a word that exists in American, but not in English. In England, we don't do cute, alas, and so this never connoted anything good.
sadi ranson-polizzotti - tant mieux articles - voices carry | the tone of sylvia plath

links back to tant mieux and sotto voce

2004-11-12T13:21:00.000-08:00

Thank you for visiting the Plath Hughes site. Please check out sotto voce and tant mieux for more articles and poetry. You can also read original work, film review, book review, poetry, and listen to audio poems at number 1 audio blog as well (not Plath). See links below and go from there. Check back frequently for updates.

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sadi ranson-polizzotti november 2004

ariel's birthday letters home

2004-10-21T17:55:00.000-07:00

Poor Ted Hughes has taken one for the Plath team of shrill girls who go about crucifying him at every turn, every freshman year, that I imagine his life to have been in many ways a living hell. Still now, though a bit less so, he has borne the brunt of the blame for the death of his wife Sylvia Plath. More>>>

this article first appeared on www.blogcritics.org

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sylvia & ted winthrop beach

2004-10-10T15:22:00.000-07:00

sylvia and ted on winthrop beach/ colorized / this picture is often said to be in Cape Cod, but the background jetty and the rock formations look more like Sylvia's first home area in Winthrop on Shore Drive with the breakers in the background. It is known that the two did visit Winthrop Beach when they visited the states.

Ariel’s Gift | a review of Erica Wagner’s Book on the story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Birthday Letters

2004-10-10T15:11:00.000-07:00

After all the books I have been reading on Plath, I have at last found the one that is worthwhile. All of this reading was for my project called “The Plath-Hughes Project” which is part of my Web site. I’ve been seeking that thing that has made Sylvia Plath and her late husband as well, Ted Hughes, the mythical persons that they became, especially Sylvia, in death. >>>more.

a review of janet malcolm's The Silent Woman

2004-10-07T15:19:00.000-07:00

I’m not sure what Janet Malcolm was after when she wrote the silent woman. The back-ad copy says that this is a “feat of literary detection” and that in The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book about Plath’s afterlife. Malcolm succeeds in giving us a very, very thorough retelling of the various biographies, with a special focus on Anne Stevenson whom she portrays as a rather weak writer and victimized by Plath executor Olwyn Hughes (Ted Hughes, Plath’s husband’s sister). Olwyn, as anyone who knows about Plath knows, never was one to mince words and she is fierce in her protection of the image of Plath that she will allow the public to see. As long as Olwyn is alive, there will be biographies that are authorized that read like Anne Stevenson’s Bitter Fame – which is to say, expected, >>>More.

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92 johnson, in Winthrop Massachusetts

court green garden

2004-10-05T14:13:00.000-07:00

the graveyard backing the plath-hughes property in the country in devon, Court Green, England.

sylvia | the film

2004-10-05T13:56:00.000-07:00

It took three separate viewings before I felt I could say anything about the film “Sylvia” starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath and Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes, and it was only after reading yet more biographies, both of Plath and Hughes that I felt I could comment with any authority.

The film is lukewarm at best, and though technically it gets many of the major details correct, what it lacks and what it does not show with any real authoritative voice is the passion that existed between the two and the real despair. Paltrow is somewhat believable as Plath, though an odd choice for the role, given her build; Plath herself was a big-boned girl, not fat or overweight, but large boned, and long in the bone and rather Teutonic in some ways, a real pin-up (which she actually did for a few silly articles while at Smith for which she posed in some cheesecake shots in a bathing suit). Paltrow is too watery to thin, though her performance is what carries this film through. Perhaps because Paltrow had, so recently before shooting began, lost her own father that she was able to plumb the depths and really get to the core of Plath’s serious depression and downward spirals. Her tears are convincing, and under the circumstances, one could believe, likely real. What’s more, Plath as we all know, had a real daddy thing, and that Paltrow had lost her own father would no doubt have helped her relate to such a trying role as Sylvia must have been. more>>>

Her Husband: A Review of Diane Middlebrook on the Plath-Hughes Deal

2004-10-05T13:52:00.000-07:00

sylvia & ted on their honeymoon

Well, thank God someone has finally written a Plath book that isn’t all Plath. Kudos to Diane Middlebrook for writing about the infamous Ted Hughes as he related to his wife Sylvia, the poetess extraordinaire, the yin to his yang, or as some believe, the yin to her yang and giving us at last the balanced portrait that we’ve been searching for all these years.>> more

giving up | the last days of Sylvia Plath - a review

2004-10-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

Giving Up the last days of sylvia plath by Jillian Becker a review by sadi ranson-polizzotti

As part of my ongoing and recent resurgent interest in Sylvia Plath, I have greedily gobbled up all of the biographies I have and ordered others from Amazon. There is no end, it seems to the amount of information that the public will devour when it comes to Sylvia Plath and likewise, her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, often referred to by her and others as Ted Huge and likewise, she called him her “Colossus,” a name that would be applied to one of her volumes of poetry later on. more>>>

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2004-09-05T14:25:00.000-07:00

three sivvys