The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world.

With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.

Using Virginia Woolf's own commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries and essays, this book aims to put her nine great novels back absolutely at the centre of Woolf's life; to read that life through her books, using the novels themselves to create a biography.

Drawing on private letters and papers, and with the co-operation of Daphne du Maurier's family, the author explores the secret drama of her life - the stifling relationship with her father, actor-manager Gerald du Maurier; her troubled marriage to war hero and royal aide, 'Boy' Browning; her wartime love affair; and more.

A selection of work by the former Poet Laureate ranging from The Hawk in the Rain to Rain-Charm for the Duchy , as well as uncollected poems from each decade of his working life. Hughes also included a group of new poems, some of which appeared later in Birthday Letters .