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There is already a small amount of detail about Dylan Thomas (see second paragraph of "College years and depression"). On page 123 of his 2008 book Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, David N. Thomas goes on to say this:
"That same year [1956] Brinnin's [John Malcolm Brinnin] book had a completely unforeseen consequence. Sylvia Plath was on holiday in Europe with her boyfriend, Gordon Lameyer. They discussed Brinnin's account of Dylan's last weeks. She vehemently argued that Brinnin should and could have prevented the poet's death. Lameyer disagreed as strongly, and the conflict severed a friendship that was already in trouble. He decided he wanted to be rid of her and, in April 1956, Plath returned to England, straight into the arms of Ted Hughes. ... Within two months she was married to him, a man and a poet she saw as Dylan Thomas incarnate. Too much like Thomas, warned Olive Prouty her benefactor. Whilst Caitlin [Caitlin Thomas] had been wonderful about Dylan' behaviour, would she, Plath, be able to put up with Hughes' philandering? Prouty also reminded Plath that she herself had told her about his aggression, cruelty and unkindness. Six years later Plath left Hughes and in 1963, the year that marked the tenth anniversary of Dylan's death, she killed herself."
I would like to propose that the section on Ted Hughes should be moved to his own wikipedia page. It is out of place here, especially the final paragraph that deals with his work and a documentary on him. 35.132.99.157 (talk) 04:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
However, we cannot discuss Sylvia Plath without approaching the subject of her blatant racism and disrespect for Black people and Jewish people. Scholars have been accused of favouritism because criticisms and biographies rarely encroach upon the territory of Plath’s racism, often relegating it to being ‘of her time’. The only non-white character in The Bell Jar is scolded by Esther, treated in a derogatory manner and described stereotypically. Plath’s allusions to Esther’s feelings of ‘otherness’ and ugliness involve vicious comparisons to non-white people, and the white supremacy in Plath’s writing diminishes her literary authority. Her poems crassly compare her suffering to that of the Holocaust and beyond her fiction, Plath’s diaries dating back to her high school years show a history of hateful and disrespectful white supremacist thinking.