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The Ballad of Nicholas Hughes

An elegy for the son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

The Ballad of Nicholas Hughes Suggested by the prose pieces of Sylvia Plath and writings about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The name Nicholas Hughes Doesn’t ring many bells … His reputation didn’t stretch very far … Except he was the son of two poets … And one of them wrote The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath was his mother’s name, His dad was known as Ted Hughes, Both scaled the heights of fame, Both were dogged by the blues. Aft...