Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Sylvia Plath's first meeting with Ted Hughes was crazy dramatic. Get this: she walked up to him, introduced herself, and recited his own poems to him. It seems like Plath picked the perfect pick up line, because they eventually made out, with Plath biting him on the cheek until he bled. (Source)
Plath was the first poet ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize posthumously. (We can think of a happier ways to set records, but hey it's still a good thing, we guess.) (Source)
Little Sylvia was a poet from the start and published her first poem when she was eight years old. (Aww.) (Source)
Freida Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, was totally against the making of the movie Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Freida even refused to allow the movie to use her mother's poetry. (Source)