by Yehuda Koren
‘Flame’ 201
‘Full Moon and Little Frieda’ 220
journals 184
letters 118–19, 135–6, 139, 145–6, 152, 171
‘Lines for Shura’ 155
‘Lines to a Newborn Baby’ 155
‘Lovesong’ 189
Lupercal 89, 101
Meet My Folks 91
‘Mountain’ 102
‘Notes on Letters Home, Revised’ 184
New Selected Poems 226
Oedipus 173–4
‘Pear’ 149
‘Primroses’ 149
‘Sunlight’ 89, 108
‘Superstitions’ 98
The Hawk in the Rain 91, 168
‘The Inscription’ 114
‘The Thought Fox’ 220
The Thought Fox 226
Tiger’s Bones 149
‘Violet’ 149
Wodwo 135
Hughes, William 158
International Festival of Spoken Poetry 165, 167
International Poets Festival, Jerusalem 1997 226
Ireland 103–5, 151–2, 153, 154–6, 215–16
Israel 166–7, 222
Italy 7–8, 9
Ivan the Terrible 134
IZL 34
J Walter Thompson 141, 150, 151, 191
Jenkin, Guy 192–3, 197
Jewish Agency 19, 32
Jones, Margaret 201
Kavanagh, Pat 179
Kinsella, Thomas 104–5
Klapholz, Kurt 63, 71
Kroll, Professor Judith 82, 224
Lamb, The 136, 137
Landels, Angela 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 102
Larschan, Richard 182–3, 212
Levenson, Christopher 67
Life of William Blake (Gilchrist) 158
Lilly Library 183
Lipsey, Professor Richard (Dick) 12, 21, 76
AW attempts to stab 79
AW, divorce from 70–2, 75, 79, 80, 110, 111, 174
AW, first meets 46, 49–50
AW, marriage to 49–59, 60–5, 69, 70, 71, 107, 158
AW seeks financial assistance from 188
economist 126, 188
second marriage, AW’s jealousy over 79–81
Lipsey, Thirell 51, 52, 53, 57, 59, 70
London Magazine Poems (Williams) 135
London Magazine, The 146
Lowell, Robert 89
Lucie-Smith, Edward 48, 65, 66, 67, 75, 77, 78, 80, 88, 98, 196, 209
Ludwig, Else xvii, 185, 201, 202
Lumb Bank 132, 216–17, 219
MacBeth, George 96, 179
Macedo, Helder 113
Macedo, Suzette 95, 113, 115
Macmillan 142
Man Without Qualities, The (Musil) 125
Manaion, Teresa 155, 156
Mann, Thomas 132
Marlborough Place, London 170
Martelli, Marisa 77
Maschler, Fay 180
Matcham, Julia 80, 115
Medicine and the German Jews (Efron) 5–6
Mellor, Philip 63
Mendelson, Andrea 148, 199
Mendelson, Mark 199
Mendelson, Patricia 74, 102, 127, 148, 158, 169, 177, 189, 193, 199, 206, 208, 211, 213–14, 217
Menelson, Michael 158, 177, 189
Merwin, Bill 92, 110, 114
Merwin, Dido 91, 93, 114
Michel, Don 54
Middlebrook, Professor Diane 86, 89, 156
Modern Poetry in Translation 165
Modern Poets – an American British Anthology, The (Brinnin & Read) 126–7
Moore, Clem 137
Morpurgo, Michael 166
Morpurgo, Horatio 166
Mosnayim 224–5
Mozambique 40, 41, 42
Murphy, Richard 103–4, 121, 122, 151, 156, 170, 208, 223
Muses’ Darling: The Life of Christopher Marlowe, The (Norman) 158
Myers, Lucas 2–3, 7–8, 86, 115, 136, 139, 143, 144, 147, 149, 150, 161, 163, 215, 217, 221
Nation 137
Nazi Party 5–6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 18, 19, 23, 30, 48, 55, 168, 186, 217
Negev, Eilat 166, 226
New Review 224
North Tawton, Devon xvii, 82, 101, 104, 106, 134, 139, 162, 171, 178, 184, 190, 204, 219
Notley’s 63, 65, 75, 76, 77
Observer 102, 223
Ogilvy, Benson & Mather 76–7, 99, 169, 172, 179–80, 181, 185, 194, 197, 211
Ogilvy, David 76
Okeover Manor, London 185, 188, 194, 206
Orchard, Carol 184, 189–90, 191, 195, 219, 220, 226
Orchard, Jack 184
Orr, Peter 111, 142
Ottoline – the Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 136–7
Palestine 8–9, 10–35, 37, 167
Parizeau, Jacques 56
Peacock Theatre, Dublin 191
PEN 111
Penguin Modern Poets 4 100, 142
Pintchuk, Menja Lipowa (great-grandmother) 1, 3
Plath, Aurelia
AW, letters from 182–3
daughters suicide, reaction to 118
Frieda and Nicholas Hughes, relationship with 129–30, 157, 170, 182, 184
Letters Home, publishes 224
TH, relationship with 118–19, 127, 129, 130, 134, 152, 157, 182, 214–15, 214–15, 219, 221
TH’s affair with AW, learns of 96, 97
TH’s family, relationship with 94, 130, 170, 219, 221
TH’s letters to 118–19, 127, 152, 182, 214
TH’s marriage to Carol Orchard, learns of 221
Plath, Margaret 116
Plath, Otto 98
Plath, Sylvia 15, 50, 85, 94, 106, 108
AW, RELATIONSHIP WITH:
AW’s admiration for 116–17
jealousy of 88, 89, 90, 92, 96, 110
poetry inspired by 96
post-death influence upon 120, 123, 126, 127, 128, 130, 132–3, 135–6, 142, 145, 155, 160–1, 168, 182–3
receives gift from 93–4, 97
rivalry with 88, 89, 90, 92, 96, 97, 101, 106–7
similarities with vi, 91–2, 97, 182–3
thoughts on 8, 89, 96, 117
time spent together 89, 90
CHARACTER 67, 90–2, 103
criticism, reaction to 67
intensity 103
jealousy 90–2
DEATH
grave 129, 130
fame and 161, 223, 224, 225, 226
suicide 115–18, 184, 187, 190, 194, 200, 212
TED HUGHES, RELATIONSHIP WITH 85–7, 88, 89, 90, 91–2, 93–4, 96–7, 99, 101, 102–5, 106–7, 107, 108–10, 111–14, 120
WORKS, LETTERS AND JOURNALS:
‘Amnesiac’ 112
Ariel 112, 116–17, 149, 161, 223
Bell Jar 225
Colossus, The 126, 143
Doubletake 113
‘Edge’ 212
‘Elm’ 86
‘Event’ 92
‘Finisterre’ 102
journal 117
Letters Home 224
‘Metaphors’ 143
manuscripts, AW takes 163–4, 165
manuscripts returned to TH 220–1
second novel 117
‘Stings’ 120
‘The Fearful’ 96
‘The Rabbit Catcher’ 92–3
‘Words Heard, by Accident, Over the Phone’ 96
Plath, Warren 116, 183
Poet Speaks, The 142
Poetry from Cambridge 67
Poets Reading Their Work 222
Popa, Vasco 165
Porter, Jannice 120, 177
Porter, Peter 63, 66, 67, 70, 77, 112, 119–20, 177, 190, 209, 222
Prism 150
Prouty, Olive Higgins 102–3
Pushkin, Aleksandr 13, 62, 65, 146
Redgrove, Barbara 85
Redgrove, Peter 65, 66, 78, 81, 85, 222
Reed, Jo 53, 54
Reed, Ken 53–4
Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art 34, 37
Resnick, Dr Philip 212
Roberts, Owen 202
Roethke, Theodore 132
Roose, Chris 180
Ross, David 116, 136
Rough Magic (Alexander) 225
Sagar, Dr Keith 119
Savage God, The (Alvarez) 223
Scigaj, Leonard 225
Second World War 18–19, 23–4, 32
Selected Poems of Vasco Popa 211
Selected Tales of Ivan Turgenev 141
Semple, Ann 182
Shelton, Shelley 179–80
Silent Woman, The (Malcolm) 225
Sillitoe, Alan 86, 87, 89–90, 117–18, 157, 167, 195
Sillitoe, Ruth (see Fainlight, Ruth)
Sonnenberg, Ben 136, 148
South London Press 207
Spencer, Sarah 42–3
St Nicholas Church, Great Hormead 68–9
Steele, John 23, 24, 46
AW, divorce from 43–4, 110, 111
AW, engagement to 37–9
AW, first meets in Palestine 25–6, 27, 28, 29–30, 31, 32–4, 36
AW, marriage to 39–42, 43–4, 45, 46
AW, reunited with in England 36
Steele, Pamela 45
Stein, Sylvester 112
Suez Canal 61–2
Sweeney, John L 104
Sylvia Plath – Method and Madness (Butscher) 224
Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Wagner-Martin) 225
Tabeetha High, Jaffa 19–22, 28
Tarn, Nathaniel 97–8, 102, 103, 111, 117, 118, 122, 173, 209
Taylor, Celia 99, 119
Taylor, Royston 99, 169, 185, 196
Tel Aviv Hospitality Committee 24
Tennant, Emma 221
Thomas, Dr Trevor 124, 133, 145
Tolstoy (Troyat) 178
Tolstoy, Leo 3, 31, 178
Torney, Pat 214
Trevor, William 60, 65, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85, 96, 191
Tyrer, Nicola 91
University of British Columbia 45
University of Mandalay 70, 73
Vala, or the Four Zoas (Blake) 158
Wagner, Erica 91–2
Weinberg-Shalitt, Hannah 27, 28
Weissbort, Daniel 138, 165–6, 167, 173
Weldon, Fay 76, 78, 85, 177, 192, 212, 213, 218
Wevill, Assia
ARTISTIC LIFE: 58, 157
art 16, 22, 32–3, 34, 59, 65, 162
art school 34, 37
assists in partners’ work 141–2, 149–50
diary 54, 121, 122–3, 125, 130, 131, 133, 187, 190, 194, 200
Eastern art, expertise in 73
letters 33–4, 41, 42, 58, 75, 138, 169, 172, 173, 175–6, 182–3
music lessons 192–3
music, love of 84, 133, 178, 185, 192–3, 201
netsuke, interest in 73, 187–8, 196
poetry 16, 22, 48, 68–9
reading 4–5, 28, 31, 61, 62, 65, 120, 125, 134, 144, 146, 157, 158, 159, 174, 178, 180, 200, 211
writing 121, 133
CAREER 32, 42–3, 46–7, 51, 54
copywriter 22, 63, 76–9, 84, 141, 150–1, 163, 172, 181–2, 188, 191, 199
film scripts 107, 140–1
netsuke 73, 187–8, 196
Reuters translator 61–2, 63
television play, writes 179–80
translates Amichai 166–7, 168–9, 172, 173, 178, 179, 189, 222
translates Zoritte-Megged 208
CHARACTER: vi–vii, 79
age, attitude towards 84–5, 180–1
alcohol, abstains from xviii, 28, 84
anglophile 20–1, 22, 25–6, 28, 29, 37, 56
artistic 57, 58, 65, 68
beauty vii, 14, 16, 21, 22–3, 36–7, 45–6, 52, 53, 54, 57–8, 61, 66, 77, 78, 83, 84–5, 87–8, 113, 117, 130, 162, 180–1, 188, 192
blunt 62, 96, 102, 131
name changes 10, 45, 49, 52, 53–4
children, attitude towards 59, 123–4, 148, 155
Christmas, attitude towards 113
cruelty 64, 96, 131
dissatisfaction with life 194–200
diva 17, 21–2, 45, 46, 51–2, 79
dreams 88–9
exile viii, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19–20, 21, 31, 33–4, 35
filicide, reasons for 212–13, 214
flirtatious 38, 42, 47, 57–8, 94–5
fragility 54
free spirit 78–9
Germany, relationship with 4–9, 14–15, 19, 22, 55–6, 92, 107, 168, 185–7
hysteria 14, 197
Israel, attitude towards 33, 173
jealousy 64, 79, 80–1, 137–8, 160, 188
Jewishness vi, 1–4, 10, 12, 16, 22, 30, 31, 33, 35, 55, 56, 107, 185, 186
languages, talent for 9, 10, 12, 20–1, 22, 29, 46, 61–2, 63, 66, 73, 107, 167, 175
laziness 45, 46, 51–2, 54
Lilith character vi, 48, 86, 89, 113, 150
music, love of 84, 133, 178, 185, 201
reaction to sixties popular culture 84
rebelliousness 21–2, 28, 50
self-image viii, 125, 126, 174, 198, 204
self-doubt 125, 126, 174, 198–9, 200, 204
selfishness 17, 37, 45, 51, 52
sense of alienation vii, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
shyness 54
smoking 53
style 22–3, 36–7, 52, 53, 73–4, 78
temper 14, 64, 79, 188
vanity 80–1, 123, 198
violence 14, 79
war, effect upon 8, 14, 18, 19, 24
wildness 47
EARLY LIFE:
birth 3–4
Canada, lives in 41–52, 59
childhood 1–9
England, moves to 34–5, 36–8
Italy, time in 7–8, 9
London, returns to 52–3
Palestine 10–35
school 7, 9, 16, 19–22, 28
EDUCATION:
art school 34, 37
reading 4–5, 28, 31, 61, 62, 65, 120, 125,134, 144, 146, 157, 158, 159, 174, 178, 180, 200, 211
school 7, 9, 16, 19–22, 28
university 45
FAMILY:
birth of first child 146–7
daughter, treatment of 148, 150, 162–3,194–5
parents, relationship with 12, 13–14, 16–17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29–31, 33, 34, 37, 41, 43, 44, 47, 71, 194
FINANCES:
copywriter salary 76, 108, 113
expenditures ledger 95
first marriage 41, 42, 46
parents 12, 20, 38, 45
second marriage 52–4, 57, 58–9, 71
shoplifting 46
TH and 152, 182
wills viii, 163, 164, 165, 177–8, 197–8, 209, 220
worries over 188, 192
HEALTH: 163
cystitis 123, 173
death vi, xvii–xviii, 200–5, 205, 206, 208, 211, 212, 222, 223, 224, 225
effect of Plath upon 142–3 see also Sylvia Plath, relationship with
funeral 207, 209–12, 216–17, 220, 225
hospitalised 142
suicide attempts 41, 57, 123
suicide letter 203–5
suicide xvii–xviii, 200–5, 212, 225
suicide, talks of 163, 181, 195–7, 200
LOVE LIFE:
abortions 47–8, 71, 119–20, 121
binds herself to men for identity vii, 47, 48, 122, 133, 173, 194
casual sex, attitude towards 58, 84
David Wevill 61–72, 73–7, 79, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88–9, 90–1, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97–102, 107, 108, 120–2, 127–8, 135–6, 137, 142–4, 148–9, 153, 158–9
divorce, first 43–4
divorce, second 71–2
Earle Birney 74
fear of loneliness 111, 133, 195
first forays into social scene 28–9
John Bosher 45, 46, 47, 48, 50
John Steele 25–31, 32, 33–4, 36, 37–44, 46–7, 110, 111
marriage, first 39–40
marriage, second 50
marriage, third 75
marriage bureau, enrols at 191–2
miscarriage 75–6
Richard Lipsey 49–65, 69, 70–2, 75, 79–81, 107, 110, 111, 126, 158, 174, 188
writing inspired by 61, 70, 100, 101, 142
LOVE LIFE WITH TED HUGHES:
accuses of rape 99, 100
attraction towards 98, 102, 124–5, 156–7, 160
begins affair with 84–94, 95–105
buys books for 95, 134–6, 158, 168, 178
deterioration in relationship 159–64, 165, 168, 173–8, 186–91
effect of relationship upon TH’s marriage 86–94, 110–11
fear of 15, 125
film script ideas, exchanges with 107
financial interaction 158, 182
first meets 82–3
house hunting with/search for permanent home vii, xvii, 128–9, 132 see also Belsize Park Gardens, Chalcot Square, Court Green, Doonreagan House, Fitzroy Road, Marlborough Place, Lumb Bank and Okeover Manor
inspires TH’s writing 3, 8, 47, 83, 87, 88, 91–2, 113, 225–7
Ireland, move to 151–3, 154–6
letters 135–6, 138–9, 146, 173
living with vi, 15, 19, 120, 123–31, 132, 156–8
joint projects 107, 150
loyalty towards 193–4
love of 106, 124–5, 135, 157, 158, 160, 168, 170, 171, 173, 175, 176, 177, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190, 193, 194, 200
Plath’s effect upon 120, 123, 126, 127, 200
pregnancies 101, 114, 116–18, 119, 144, 145
reservations about affair 129
sacrifices career for 151
seduces, 86–7, 88–9
separates from 169–70
sexual relationship 98, 99, 102, 123, 175–6, 182–3
squabbles with xvii, 125–6, 128, 133–4, 175–8, 186, 187, 196, 200, 201
TH’s other women, reactions to 137–9, 160, 190
TH’s parents, relationship with 129, 132, 133, 157–8, 161–2, 165, 169, 174, 200
travels to Germany with 185–7
travels to Spain with 106, 107, 108, 186
written out of TH’s life vi–vii, 206–7, 223–5
see also Hughes, Ted
SYLVIA PLATH, RELATIONSHIP WITH:
admiration for 120
Plath’s post-death influence upon 120, 123, 126, 127, 128, 130, 132–3, 135–6, 142, 145, 155, 160–1, 168, 182–3
similarities between vi, 91–2, 97, 182–3
steals manuscripts 163–4, 165
reaction to suicide of 116–18, 119, 126, 127, 128, 129–30, 131, 145, 194
relationship with vi, 8, 86, 89, 90, 91, 93–4, 101
rivalry with 101, 126, 142, 155, 161
Wevill, David 9, 84