Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Sylvia Plath was an American poet of the mid-20th century who killed herself at age 30. She was married to British poet laureate Ted Hughes, but the poem does not portray relationship or love. He had ...