LONDON — A previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes that details the painful moments surrounding the suicide of his wife, the writer Sylvia Plath, is being published by The New Statesman today, the magazine said.
Hughes, an English poet laureate, and Plath, his American wife, are considered among the 20th century’s greatest poets. Their doomed marriage inspired some of their best work and has been the focus of endless fascination.
The poem, called “Last Letter,” chronicles the three days before Plath’s death in her London home on Feb. 11, 1963, beginning: “What happened that night? Your final night.”
Its discovery has already created a minor sensation in Britain. The country’s Channel 4 News broadcast excerpts of the work Wednesday evening read by actor Jonathan Pryce.
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