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June 11, 2017Good article nomineeListed
July 7, 2017Featured article candidateNot promoted
On this day...A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 11, 2020.
Current status: Good article

Ted Hughes Section

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I would like to propose that the section on Ted Hughes should be moved to his own wikipedia page. It is out of place here, especially the final paragraph that deals with his work and a documentary on him. 35.132.99.157 (talk) 04:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the entire "Career and marriage" section? I think the article might look very strange with hardly any mention of Hughes. Martinevans123 (talk) 06:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Racism

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Why is her blatant racism and disrespect for Black people and Jewish people not included in the article? Bill the Cat 7 (talk) 14:43, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What examples were you thinking of? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:45, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here is an RS that says,
However, we cannot discuss Sylvia Plath without approaching the subject of her blatant racism and disrespect for Black people and Jewish people. Scholars have been accused of favouritism because criticisms and biographies rarely encroach upon the territory of Plath’s racism, often relegating it to being ‘of her time’. The only non-white character in The Bell Jar is scolded by Esther, treated in a derogatory manner and described stereotypically. Plath’s allusions to Esther’s feelings of ‘otherness’ and ugliness involve vicious comparisons to non-white people, and the white supremacy in Plath’s writing diminishes her literary authority. Her poems crassly compare her suffering to that of the Holocaust and beyond her fiction, Plath’s diaries dating back to her high school years show a history of hateful and disrespectful white supremacist thinking.
https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/holding-sylvia-plath-accountable/ Bill the Cat 7 (talk) 14:51, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]