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The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination ... and some of the flowers she admired at Lyman, such as leopard orchids and camellias, appear in her later poems. In ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks ... hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst ...

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 ...

The reason why there are so many books about Sylvia ... Plath’s annotations of books, and examined again the influence of Hughes and his belief in magic and in astrology. Some readers will no doubt ...

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 ...

The BBC archive contains several recordings made by Sylvia Plath – poems, interviews and commentary – which capture something more rounded than the popular image often allows. The sharp and ...

I cannot stop writing poems! … They come from the vocabulary of woods and animals and earth. Popular perceptions of Sylvia Plath tend to dwell on a deeply ... who loves the “little flocks” of flowers ...