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

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

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

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

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 ...

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.

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It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.

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