A true Colossus… among Sylvia Plath’s verses
Inscribed to her husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, the dedication copy of the first and only collection of Sylvia Plath’s poems to be published in her lifetime, 'The Colossus and other Poems', sold for a record £75,000 in a Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) sale.
The inscription, in which she describes Hughes as the “source of my birthdays”, evidently had a me…