They represent the first time that Plath has been allowed to speak for herself since her death in 1963. While over a hundred biographies and critical works have been written about Sylvia Plath, no ...
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 ...
Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight ... Sarah Holzmann American poet and short story writer Sylvia Plath was considered a genius even during her lifetime ...
The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show.
"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
“I could not have written [this book] without the embodied experience of loving Sylvia Plath ... ability to recognize in ...
The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating ... 20 years of writing in one volume is special in itself. The work is presented chronologically within each section, which ...
Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry. They consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating ... This ...
Plath was born in 1932 in Boston and died by suicide in London in 1963, those are two facts no biographer can edit or place a sense of spin on. Yet there is so much of her story which remains a ...