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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19980203
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in your report on poems by Ted Hughes about his love for Sylvia Plath ("Sylvia Plath's ex-husband breaks silence with poetry," Jan. 20), you quote poet Andrew Motion as saying Hughes' poems are "as magnetic as Robert Browning's poems for Elizabeth Barrett."

I haven't been reading much Browning lately (I'm a retired English Lit. teacher), but it seems to me that the Browning poems referred to are "Sonnets From the Portuguese" by Elizabeth to Robert. He responded with a single poem - the only specifically addressed love poem from Robert to Elizabeth ...

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