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Although Dr. Orne insisted that Sexton had given him permission to do what he thought appropriate with the tapes, his colleagues howled that he had made a travesty of doctor-patient confidentiality, Sexton's wishes be damned.
Sexton Robert Newman, preacher Cotton Mather, and Prince Hall, a free black who founded the Negro Freemasons, are all buried here.
A poetic homage, for sure, since the two writers exemplify the stylistic divide between the confessional poets of the postwar United States (count Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Sexton, and others) and their more objective British counterparts (think of Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, etc.).
Here on the night of 18 April, 1775, sexton Robert Newman climbed the tower and hung the two lanterns (“one, if by land, and two, if by sea”) warning the colonists in Concord of British troop movements.
On the New York Times op-ed page, Diane Wood Middlebrook, biographer of Plath's friend Anne Sexton, applauds Hughes for accepting at least partial responsibility for Plath's death--"the role of Fatal Husband."