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Packet 10: Bonus 6

This author described an object as a “mad execution uniform” in a poem about his wife’s first day teaching at Smith College. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who chronicled his relationship with his deceased wife in the 1998 collection Birthday Letters.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10e] Ted Hughes was married to this confessionalist poet of “Daddy” whose novel The Bell Jar was published the year she committed suicide.
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10m] This Sylvia Plath poetry collection was restructured posthumously by Ted Hughes based on Plath’s “biographical arc.” This collection’s title poem ends by describing a “drive Into the red /Eye, the cauldron of morning.”
ANSWER: Ariel
<Literature - American, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 10

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