Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

Emily Cushion recounts stories from Plath's time at Cambridge, reflecting on the pragmatism of her university writing ...

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In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath ...

Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. ''' -Sylvia Plath From October 1962 to February 1963, the period between Hughes leaving and her death, Plath was prolific, writing more than ...

Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.

The back cover of the British edition of Ariel published by Faber & Faber in 1965 lists all 44 Faber poets, including Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. In just 10 years, Plath had joined the ranks of ...

There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire ...