This theory could help explain why eminent artists throughout history, from composer Robert Schumann to poet SylviaPlath to Wallace -- suffered mood disorders.
By that time, the Hudson Review had earned its reputation for independence, publishing authors from Wallace Stevens and SylviaPlath to Octavio Paz and Joyce Carol Oates.
The Birthday Letters was Mr Hughes's first break with a self-imposed silence on his grief over the break-up of his marriage to SylviaPlath and her suicide.
The late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has won the TS Eliot prize for his work, Birthday Letters, a personal collection of verse letters to former wife and poet SylviaPlath.