Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ambition, ...

“I feel like sometimes, as women, we’re encouraged to take up less space in the world, and she’s someone who wanted to take up space.” Apple Podcasts will only work on MacOS operating systems since ...

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...

A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history. How has ...

Not only poems, but poets die miserably every day for lack of what is found in each other’s work. Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize, and Sylvia Plath taught at the same time ...

For the many feminist critics who have excoriated Ted Hughes’ treatment of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, there was poetic justice of a sort in the auction of the poets’ belongings by their daughter, ...

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...

The six Sylvia Plath poems in focus here are “Mushrooms,” “You’re,” “The Babysitters,” “The Applicant,” “Ariel,” and “Edge.” Sarah Ruden deftly distributes discussions of the poems into a succinct and ...