This beginner’s guide opens the door to Sylvia Plath’s hauntingly beautiful world of poetry. From love and longing to trauma ...

Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath ... She summarizes Plath’s life, reflects on her afterlife and selectively analyzes her poetry — all through the lens of ...

What did I love the most as a child ... And I allow this poem to continue to haunt me. I hope it never leaves my side. Thank you, Sylvia Plath. Elin Dieme is an award-winning writer, actor ...

Sarah Corbett received funding from Arts Council England for the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival in 2022. “Love” is the first word in Ariel, the collection of poems published by Faber and Faber ...

moving from the melodramatic teenage love stories she wrote for Seventeen magazine to the swift slap in the face that is the poem “Daddy.” Clark also scrutinizes how Plath was molded by her ...

Every year, I make a pilgrimage to Sylvia Plath’s grave in Heptonstall ... grass and sometimes we write poems of our own. Amelia and I talk constantly about love and loss, send each other ...

appear in her later poems. In contrast to the way the bell jar is used as a metaphor for oppression in Plath’s eponymous novel, Hoag says references from her early days as a Smith student are far more ...

Van Duyne’s love letter to the poet may seem necessary. For those less obsessed, it is a volume you can safely skip. Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath ...