Crow Steered/Bergs Appeared [Paperback]

Lucas Myers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 2001

Lucas Myers was a friend of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Hughes' sister Olwyn, Assia Weevil and Hughes' widow Carol. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes (now in the Hughes archive at Emory University) and discusses Birhtday Letters, the late Poet Laureate's collection of poems about Sylvia Plath and their marriage, and Plath's recently published complete Journals 1950-1962.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Crow Steered Bergs Appeared...will be of interest to Hughes-Plath cultists... -- JC in his column "NB", Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 23, 2001

He shares his views with great openness and honesty and does not shy away from uncomfortable readings... -- Dr. Claas Kazzer, March 3, 2001

About the Author

Lucas Myers lived at St. Botolph's Rectory in Cambridge and Ted Hughes stayed with him there after he had taken his degree. The two helped found a literary magazine, The St. Botolph's Review, and met Sylvia Plath at a party to celebrate its appearance.

Myers was born in Tennessee and educated there and at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. He subsequently lived in Rome, France, Cyprus, New York and California. Myers has worked with the United Nations, CARE, in Harlem with NYC Social Services, as a seaman and in several institutions as a teacher. He spent time in the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Dalai Lama, in the 1990s. Myers wrote a book about a 1,000 mile pilgrimage by prostration of Tibetan nuns, monks and laymen and about freedom fighters in Tibet based on extensive interviews. He is married to a Tibetan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 165 pages
• Publisher: Proctor's Hall Press (February 22, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097062140X
• ISBN-13: 978-0970621405
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( P ) > Plath, Sylvia

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Different Perspective, February 5, 2011

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Julia A. Bramer "wwwnighttimescom" (Maryland Heights, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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I've learned more about Sylvia Plath from my research of her in books about other people, most especially, Ted Hughes. This book has been invaluable to me. My only complaint is the sloppy editing--Sylvia's name is actually misspelled several times throughout the book! It feels like a rush-job, from a literary standpoint, but it's good reading nonetheless.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strangely written, biased, but indispensable, October 31, 2007

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Margaret (Santa Rosa, California, United States) - See all my reviews
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Lucas writes oddly, perhaps because he's an American who has spent many years out of this country.

His bias in favor of Ted Hughes is obvious.

Nevertheless, the book is indispensable for anyone interested in Hughes, Plath, and their relationship and poetry.

Hughes did not say enough, so it's up to those who knew them to tell the story of this doomed pair.

Sadly, the poetry of neither can be separated from the poetry of the other. Hughes should have published "Birthday Letters" so much sooner. As Lucas notes, it freed him. Unfortunately, it came too late to do much good.