‘Metamorphosis’ (SP; poem), 114
Mexborough, Yorkshire, 35, 47
Mexborough Grammar School, 3, 49, 52–3, 63
Mexico City, 403
Michel, Caroline (Mrs Matthew Evans), 504
Michie, James, 161, 352, 435
Middlebrook, Diane: Her Husband, 19
Millais, John Everett: painting of Ophelia, 410
Miller, Arthur, 159
Miller, Karl, 78, 96, 353, 405
Miłosz, Czesław, 233, 282
Milton, John, 464; Lycidas, 512
‘Minotaur, The’ (TH; poem), 198
‘Minotaur 2’ (TH; poem), 523
Minton, Than, 99, 212, 401
Mitchell, Adrian, 360, 362
Moat, John, 325
Modern Poetry in Translation (magazine), 86, 233, 252
Modern Poets, The: An American-British Anthology, 146, 221
‘Money, my enemy’ (TH; poem), 16
Monroe, Marilyn, 159
Montaigne, Michel de, 255
Monteith, Charles: and Larkin’s parody of Crow, 14; and TH’s Meet My Folks, 148; at Faber party, 169; publishes Murphy, 192; and publication of Ariel, 234; recommends TH for post in Germany, 242; asks TH to edit Emily Brontë poems, 272, 458; and TH’s Gaudete, 334; and The Rattle Bag, 386; and TH’s proposed Remains of Elmet, 388; and A Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse, 458–60; retires, 536; see also Faber and Faber (publishers)
‘Moon and Yew Tree, The’ (SP; poem), 12, 345
Moon-Bells (TH; poems), 387–8
Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems (TH; poems), 387
Moore, Clem, 203–4, 211
Moore, Marianne, 135, 144
Moors Murders, 295, 390
Moortown Diary (Moortown Elegies; Moortown; TH; farming book), 272, 319, 323–4, 343–4, 349, 405
Morgan, Robin: accuses TH of abuse and rape of SP, 347–9, 432, 439, 513, 535; ‘Arraignment’ (poem), 347–9; Monster, 347–9; Sisterhood is Powerful (ed.), 345–6
‘Morning before Christmas, The’ (TH; poem), 409
‘Morning Song’ (SP; poem), 216, 238
Morpurgo, Clare, 417, 425, 499
Morpurgo, Horatio, 481–2
Morpurgo, Michael, 42–3, 414, 417, 425, 499
Morrigu Press, The, 382
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 52
Motion, Andrew, 386, 488, 502–3
Mottram, Eric, 73
Movement, The (school of poets), 180
Muir, Edwin, 135
Murphy, Richard: rejects SP’s advances, 153, 314; background, 191; poetry, 191–2; invites TH to Ireland, 193; and publication of Ariel, 236–8; moves to Doonreaghan, Cashel, 244; TH visits in Ireland, 246–7; and first Poetry International Festival, 252; and TH’s move to Lumb House, 282; campus readings in USA with TH, 302; TH praises Jill Barber to, 363; letter from TH on exhaustion, 399; TH meets at Connaught hotel, London, 537
Myers, Lucas (‘Luke’): on TH’s inner life, 16; at Cambridge, 86–7, 106, 114; SP meets, 98–9, 104; in Paris, 119; visits TH and SP in USA, 145; letter from TH on American poetry, 147; visits TH and SP in London, 161; and SP’s rages, 175; and TH’s writer’s block, 226; newsy letter from TH, 256; TH meets in New York, 302; letter from TH on Orghast, 312; and TH’s trouble with tax inspector, 381; and TH’s fishing, 406; and TH’s depression, 413, 416; TH describes Nick to, 415; TH’s correspondence with, 476; Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared, 558
Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, 3, 23, 26–7, 33
National Rivers Authority, 475
National Service Act (1949), 61
National Theatre, London, 256
Neruda, Pablo, 243, 252–3
Nessie the Mannerless Monster (TH; comic verse), 228
Neville, Jill, 314
New American Review, 312
New Selected Poems 1957–1994 (TH), 189, 360, 485, 496, 507, 515, 522
New Selected Poems (1982; TH), 407
New Writing (ed. Malcolm Bradbury and Andrew Motion), 502
‘New Year’ (TH; poem), 409
New York Review of Books, 353
New York Times, 167, 227
New York Times Book Review, 293
New Yorker (magazine), 124, 157, 174
Newman, Charles (ed.): The Art of Sylvia Plath, 345
Newsweek (US magazine), 292
‘Nicholas’ (SP; poem), 157
‘Nicholas Ferrer’ (TH; poem), 31, 145
Nicholson, Max: The Environmental Revolution, 297–8
‘Nick and the Candlestick’ (SP; poem), 202, 216
Nicola (bank manager’s daughter), 181–3
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 93
Nile, river: TL cruises on, 417
Norris, Hilda, 62
North Tawton, Devon see Court Green
North-East Drift New Salmon Fishery (Northumbria), 475
Northampton, Mass., 133–4
Northcott Theatre, Exeter, 527
Northern Broadsides (theatre company), 533
Norton, Dick, 357–8, 436
‘Notes on the Chronological Order of Sylvia Plath’s Poems’ (TH; essay), 345
Nye, Robert, 228
Oates, Joyce Carol, 355
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 191
O’Brien, Edna, 374, 374–5
O’Brien, Sean, 488
Observer (newspaper), 166–7, 213, 312, 314, 316, 386, 419, 445, 504
O’Connell, Fintan, 75
‘October Salmon’ (TH; poem), 409, 411
‘Ode for Ted’ (SP; poem), 114
‘Offers, The’ (TH; poem), 255, 379, 510, 523, 526, 562–4
Old Vic theatre, 257, 259
Olsen, John, 367
‘Once I said lightly’ (TH; poem), 339
‘Open to Huge Light’ (TH; poem), 392
‘Ophelia’ (TH; poem), 410
‘Opus 131’ (TH; poem), 521–2
Orchard, Carol see Hughes, Carol
Orchard, Jack (Carol’s father): background, 254; assists TH in running Court Green, 317; cancer and death, 329, 343, 363, 542; TH dedicates poems to memory, 342–4, 389
Orchard, Jean (Carol’s sister), 384, 483
Orchard, Minnie (née Evans), 254
Orchard, Robert (Carol’s brother), 255, 385
Order of Merit: awarded to TH, 4, 538
Orghast (TH; play and invented language), 307, 309–12, 322–3
Orley House, Bideford, 18
Orpheus (TH; children’s play), 322
Orts (TH; poems), 341–2, 393, 410
Osborne, John, 229
‘Other, The’ (TH; poem), 450
‘Otter, An’ (TH; poem), 164, 273, 325
Ovid: Metamorphoses, 490, 527–31
Owen, Roger, 74
Owen, Wilfred, 477; Collected Poems, 236
Oxford, 161
Palmer and Dodge (Boston lawyers), 6, 432
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 548
‘Paris 1954’ (TH; poem), 510
Paris: TH visits, 83, 306; SP in, 106–7, 110; TH and SP honeymoon in, 119
Pasternak, Boris, 260
Paulin, Tom, 504
Pavese, Cesare, 404
Peabody and Arnold (law firm), 6
Pease, David, 385
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 61, 65, 71, 73, 80
Penguin Books, 179
‘Pennines in April’ (TH; poem), 164
‘Perfect Light’ (TH; poem), 184
Perloff, Marjorie, 355
Persia (Iran), 307–10, 559
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 385, 485
‘Pike’ (TH; poem), 145, 160, 186, 271
Pilinszky, János, 320–2, 369, 430
‘Pink Wool Knitted Dress, A’ (TH; poem), 523
Pinner, David: Ritual, 333
Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker, 168
‘Platform One’ (TH; poem), 518
Plath, Aurelia (SP’s mother): and autobiographical elements in SP’s work, 10; and editing of SP’s Letters Home, 19, 350, 352–3, 552; letters from SP, 115, 160; visits SP in England
and attends wedding, 116, 119; complains of TH’s not having proper job, 144; buys air mattresses for TH and SP, 149; letters from TH, 159, 276; birth of children, 162–3, 179; cares for Frieda during TH and SP’s travels, 175; visits TH and SP in Devon, 187; final sight of SP, 191; letter from TH on SP’s death, 219; announces visit to see SP’s grave, 222; postpones visit to England, 244; visits England to see grandchildren, 253–4; character and qualities, 254; SP’s attitude to, 254, 518; grandchildren visit in USA, 269, 281, 299; and death of TH’s mother, 278; declines to share cost of Devon house with TH, 288; deposits money into accounts for Frieda and Nick, 288; affected by US publication of The Bell Jar, 304, 350; heart attack, 350; TH visits at Wellesley, 433; and Bell Jar libel case, 434–5
Plath, Margaret (Warren’s wife), 214
Plath, Otto (Sylvia’s father): in SP poem, 8; death, 115, 142, 144, 314, 518; grave, 157–8; supposed sympathy for Hitler, 165; SP’s relations with, 222, 351, 474, 518; in SP’s writings, 445–6; Germanic tendencies, 451; beekeeping, 478; birth, 515; see also ‘Daddy’
Plath, Sylvia: suicide, 1–2, 211–13, 226–7, 239, 240, 250, 446–7, 455, 524; fights with TH, 4, 142; grave, 4, 395, 400, 519, 536, 558; anger at Jane Anderson, 6–7; autobiographical writing, 8, 10; biographers, 11–12, 19, 21, 440; as ‘split personality’, 11; journals, 17, 220, 247, 354–5, 504, 519, 522, 532; TH writes account of last days, 18; TH quotes in broadcast talk, 45; acquires and moves to Devon house (Court Green), 51, 175–8; at Cambridge, 75, 87; irritated by Joe Lyde, 75; first meets TH, 98–104, 523; Huws criticises poem at Cambridge, 99, 341, 522; appearance, 101, 159; sexual precocity, 103–4; visits TH in London, 107–10; travels in Europe, 110; writes of TH, 111; forms close relationship with TH, 113–15; cooking, 115, 120–1, 125, 159, 178, 208; and father’s death, 115, 142, 144–5, 157–8, 314, 446, 518; letters to mother, 115; wedding, 116–17; in Spain, 119–22; visits TH’s family, 122; temporarily separated from TH on return to Cambridge, 123; occupies flat near Cambridge with TH, 124; organises publication of TH’s poems, 124, 127; on Olwyn, 125; Olwyn describes, 125; teaching post at Smith College, 127, 133; flare-up before Fishers, 128–9; returns to USA, 129; TH teaches poetic economy, 130, 140; writing, 130–1; dreams, 131, 159, 515; exhausted by teaching and poor health, 138; admiration for TH’s poetry, 139; cult, 140; suspects TH of infidelity, 140–2; undergoes psychoanalysis, 142, 144, 157, 171; marriage relations, 143–5, 172–3, 205; confessional poetry, 146–7; photographed by Rollie McKenna, 146, 221; stays at Yaddo, 148–9, 154–7, 159; road trip in America and Canada, 149–54; pregnancies, 153–4, 157, 160, 175, 178; Rogovin portrait, 155, 158; occupies Chalcot Square flat in London, 160; rude behaviour, 161–2; at Faber party, 168–9; quarrel with Olwyn, 169–71; interviewed with TH on BBC radio, 172–3; poetic technique, 172; destroys TH manscripts, 173, 190; miscarriage, 173; TH visits in hospital, 173–4; outbursts of rage, 175, 196, 198; wins Eugene Saxton Grant, 178; not published in The New Poetry, 181; attitude to Nicola, 182–3; projected novel on life in Devon, 183, 220; and TH’s affair with Assia, 188, 191; awarded Guinness Prize, 192; visits Murphy in Ireland, 192; Murphy rejects advances, 193, 314; wishes for legal separation, 193; marriage breakdown, 195–8, 200, 219, 510; dislikes country life, 200; poetry matures, 201, 216; moves to Fitzroy Road, London, 202–3, 208; pleased at living apart from TH, 202; relations with Alvarez, 202, 214–15; breakdown before TH, 206–7; demands TH leave country, 208–9; funeral, 213; relations with father, 222, 351, 474, 518; reads Keith Douglas poems, 235–6; attitude to mother, 254, 518; ‘woman’s magazine’ element in writing, 255; TH dreams of, 270; legacy, 303; manuscripts stolen from Court Green, 311; Alvarez writes on suicide, 312–14; hurt by male rejection, 314–15; haunts TH, 322, 325–6; poetic style, 327; TH elegises, 332; as feminist icon, 346, 511–12; and Morgan’s attack on TH, 347–9; editing and publication of letters, 350–2; Kroll’s study of, 350–3; mother proposes publishing letters, 350; posthumous earnings taxed, 381, 413; manuscripts sold by Sotheby’s, 385, 413; photographed at Top Withens, 392, 397; in TH’s ‘Heptonstall Cemetery’, 394, 397; beekeeping, 414, 478; harsh words on TH, 439; gravestone defaced by feminists, 441; in TH’s ‘Trial’, 442–7; writings on father, 445–6; TH casts as Shakespeare character, 458; and myth, 471, 473–4; and TH’s notion of the Goddess, 473; proposed film on marriage to TH, 481; TH’s confessional poems on, 496; and publication of Birthday Letters, 503, 509–23; in TH’s Silvine Notebook (‘The Sorrows of the Deer’), 512–14; in TH’s ‘Black Coat’, 515, 517–18; in TH’s Alcestis translation, 534–5; depicted in Susan Schaeffer’s Poison, 548–52; letters published, 552–3; TH burns last journal, 555; TH sees ghost, 562–4; in TH’s ‘The Offers’, 563–5; centrality in TH’s mental world, 566
Plath, Warren (SP’s brother): letters from SP, 115–16, 121; in Paris, 122; visits TH and SP in Cape Cod, 129; letter from TH, 159; helps removal to Devon, 178; marriage, 187; as classmate with Clem Moore, 203; at SP’s funeral, 214
Ploughshares (magazine), 189
Poe, Edgar Allan, 356
‘Poem for a Birthday’ (SP; poem), 156, 158, 161, 174, 354
Poems (TH with Alan Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight), 295
Poetry at the Mermaid (festival), 191–2
Poetry Book Society, 191, 428; Bulletin, 238, 428
Poetry Center, New York, 134
Poetry from Cambridge 1952–4 (collection), 96
Poetry International Festival: first, London (1967), 252–3, 289; second (1969), 279–80
Poetry in the Making (TH; school book), 37, 43, 173
Poetry Now (radio programme), 165
Pollard, Charlie, 184
Popa, Vasko, 233, 282, 291; Collected Poems, 283
Porter, Jannice, 221, 275
Porter, Peter, 88, 221, 275, 292
‘Portraits’ (TH; character sketches), 402
Pound, Ezra, 179, 243
Pratt, Alexander Jr (‘Sandy’), 6, 436–7
Preston, Gill, 211
Primer for Birds, A (TH; poems), 413
Prior, Maddy, 334, 362
‘Prism, The’ (TH; poem), 132
Private Eye (magazine), 14
Prometheus (mythical figure), 307, 309, 322–3
Prometheus on his Crag (TH; poems), 323, 331, 343
Propertius, Sextus, 565
Protestantism, 467
Pryor, Felix, 385
‘Puma’ (TH; poem), 382, 413
Puritanism, 462, 468, 501
‘Pursuit’ (SP; poem), 105, 532
Purves, Libby, 558
Pushkin, Alexander: ‘The Prophet’, 539
Queen Elizabeth, RMS, 129
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 324–5, 476
‘Rabbit Catcher, The’ (SP; poem), 187, 237, 395, 440–1, 530–1
‘Rabbit Catcher, The’ (TH; poem), 187
Racine, Jean: Phèdre, 482, 532, 537, 566
Radin, Paul: ‘The Trickster Cycle of the Winnebago Indians’, 289
Radio Times, 233
‘Rain Horse, The’ (TH; story), 57, 181, 249
Rain-Charm for the Duchy (TH; collection), 486, 488, 497
‘Rain-Charm for the Duchy’ (TH; poem), 419, 486
Rainbow Press, 294–5, 323, 341–2, 346, 387, 390
Raine, Katheen, 268, 506
Ramanujan, A.K.: Speaking of Siva, 337–9
Random House (publishers), 347–8
Rankin, David, 363, 367
Rankin, Jennifer: TH’s attachment to, 363, 367, 374; cancer and death, 368, 527; TH’s elegies for, 502; letters from TH, 553; Earth Hold, 367–8; ‘North Devon poem’, 367
Rankin, Jessica, 367
Ransom, John Crowe, 147
‘Rat under the Bowler, The’ (TH; article), 229–30
Rattle Bag, The (TH with Heaney; children’s anthology), 386, 483, 485
Reading, Peter, 488
‘Red’ (TH; poem), 102
Redgrave, Vanessa, 203
Redgrove, Peter, 79, 88, 256, 268, 303, 306, 465, 516
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Redgrove, Zoe, 268, 299
Reid, Christopher, 410, 467, 553–4
‘Religion’ (TH; poem), 510
Remains of Elmet (TH; poems), 391–5, 406, 428; reissued as part of Three Books, 395–6, 411, 429
‘Remembrance of Elmet’ (TH), 19
‘Remission’ (TH; poem) see ‘Delivering Frieda’
Rhys, Jean, 235
Riding, Laura, 17
Rigg, Dame Diana, 537
Rilke, Rainer Maria: ‘The Panther’ (poem), 96, 135
Ringwald, Molly, 481
River (TH; poetry collection), 395–6, 407–11, 419, 542
Robertshaw, Derek, 38
Roche, Clarissa, 139, 200, 356
Roche, Paul, 139–40
‘Rock, The’ (TH; poem), 25
‘Roe-deer’ (TH; diary poem), 319
Roethke, Theodore, 156, 174, 216; ‘The Dream’ (poem), 224
Rogovin, Howard, 155, 158
‘Roosting Hawk’ (TH; poem), 145
Rose, Gerald, 228
Rose, Jacqueline: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, 440–1, 489, 531
Rosenthal, M.L., 146, 239, 345
Ross, David, 86–7, 99, 211, 220
Roth, Philip, 433
Rougemont Press (Exeter), 294
Rowse, A.L., 488
Royal Shakespeare Company, 256–7, 307, 495, 497–9
Royal Society of Literature: awards prize to Moortown, 405
Rugby Street, Holborn (London), 107–9, 123, 160, 214
Ruskin, John, 404
Rutter, Barrie, 533
Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 74
Sacred Earth Drama Trust, 485
Sacred Earth Dramas (plays), 485, 499
‘Sacrifice’ (earlier ‘Uncle A’; TH; poem), 217, 428, 429, 450
Sagar, Keith, 338, 428, 477
Saint Botolph’s Review, 88–9, 91–2, 98, 101
St John’s College, Cambridge, 77
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye, 182
‘Salmon Eggs’ (TH; poem), 409, 411
Salmon and Trout Association, 425
Sassoon, George, 124
Sassoon, Richard, 103–4, 106, 110, 119, 514
Sassoon, Siegfried, 104
Saturday Night (magazine), 228
Saxton, Joe, 561–2
Scammell, William, 339, 477, 491
Schaeffer, Neil, 432
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg, 302, 432; Poison (novel), 548–52
Scofield, Paul, 256, 260
Scotland, 305
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