Mad Girl's Love Song

On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter - now one of the most famous in all literary history - was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a ''big, dark, hunky boy''. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured Plath''s life and work. The...