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 ...

Take these mental health quotes, for example ... I am, I am, I am.” —Sylvia Plath “Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it.

I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy’!” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 56. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ...

Writer and archivist Peter K. Steinberg has spent 30 years compiling, editing and archiving materials on the life and work of Sylvia Plath, who would have turned 92 today. Often seen in light of ...

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. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave ...

Sylvia Plath ... at the magazine for Plath's breakdown. Winder applies a poet's touch to Pain, told in discrete, sometimes disjointed chapters and embedded with pull quotes and sidebars.

“Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning of coming to terms with the poet’s biography. That may seem an astonishing ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and ...

Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death.

For this reason, we have rated this quote as "Misattributed." The Incorrect Sylvia Plath Quotes account, which began posting on Tumblr in early 2012 and which literary blog Book Riot deemed an ...