Sylvia Plath Hughes' tombstone says Sylvia Plath Hughes on it. People have been trying for a long, long time to get into that cemetery and chisel his name off of the tombstone because he had kind of dicked her around before she committed suicide. He published letters in the 80s, right? He published a book of poetry in 1998 called a birthday letters. Now he should be mentioned is a famous poet in his own right. His work was very famous on its own merits.