Sylvia Plath. Cape Cod Journal: typescript, 17 July 1957. Responding to The Waves in her journal, Plath was initially “disturbed” and “almost angered” with Woolf’s “endless sun, waves, birds, and the ...

The large bird rose awkwardly, a misty apparition of long neck and flapping wings, and moved elsewhere in the marsh. In the stillness following this encounter, I heard, among the reeds in the ...

Bird and Tim McCanlies' script was based on Ted Hughes' 1968 novel, originally published as The Iron Man. Hughes, who was married to novelist and poet Sylvia Plath until her death by suicide in ...