Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met at a party in Falcon Yard in Cambridge in 1956. She was already a published poet in America and he was returning to Cambridge at weekends after graduating from Pembroke two years earlier. They fell in love and married, living and writing in Cambridge until June 1957. This course will be in the form of lectures, discussion, poetry reading and one walk to visit some of the haunts of a famous literary couple. Week 1: The timeline of the Cambridge Period; Week 2: Ted Hughes in Cambridge; Week 3: Sylvia Plath in Cambridge; Week 4: The Poets as a Couple in Cambridge; Week 5: 'Our Place' a literary walk from the Millbridge to Grantchester'.