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Details of a miscarriage emerge From Feb. 18, 1960, to Feb. 4, 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to psychologist Ruth Beuscher.
Poet Ted Hughes met Sylvia Plath 1956. "They were both geniuses, says biographer Jonathan Bate. Hughes is shown above on the first day of trout fishing season in April 1986.
Then she turned on the gas. On the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, a Monday, a nurse found the poet Sylvia Plath in her flat on Fitzroy Road in London, an address where W.B. Yeats had once lived.
A pop-up exhibition, “Selections from the Judith G. Raymo Collection of Sylvia Plath at Smith College,” is on view on the third floor of Neilson Library through Nov. 24.
The new poems, along with other new documents and photographs of Plath and Hughes, can be found in Crowther and Steinberg’s book These Ghostly Archives, which has been released in the U.K., but ...
Hughes is shown above on the first day of trout fishing season in April 1986. Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the ...
Craig Morgan Teicher's latest collection of poetry is called To Keep Love Blurry. Fifty years ago today, Sylvia Plath ended her life as a major poet and an artist of the highest order.
Fifty years ago Monday, Sylvia Plath, a 30-year-old American living in England, put her head in her oven and committed suicide. Her two children were upstairs; her husband, the poet Ted Hughes ...
The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...
It was Sylvia Plath who paid the charge in full, and one feels in reading the final 12 poems in this collection, those written in the month and the days of 1963 which preceded her death, form a ...
Sylvia Plath has been lhe subject of more attention than any other young American poet in recent years. Her posthumous book, ARIEL, is here considered by Peter Davison, whose new collection of ...