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 ... to readers of Plath biographies — now viewed from the angle of a Plath scholar and a professional tarot reader. In effect, what Ms. Gordon ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can ... In Van Duyne’s portrait, the months before Plath’s 1963 suicide were indeed characterized by the return of her long battle ...

Sylvia Plath lived all of 30 years. But one of the most significant moments — for her life and, as it turned out, for literature — spanned a mere month, June 1953, when she was 20. But Winder ...

The latest rereading of Sylvia Plath’s tragic life is a biographical take in which the author suggests a rare communion with her subject (Bettmann Archive/Getty) And in this latest book on ...

On the contrary, it was Ted Hughes who did the picking and promotion of his tendentious portrait of Plath. Only a critic as steeped in the literature of Sylvia Plath could have produced such an ...

It is strongest in its blistering portrait of Hughes as the abusive, unfaithful husband who began to manipulate Sylvia Plath’s literary legacy and personal reputation immediately after her ...

The quote, which is a version of a popular adage that has circulated since the 1970s, was first associated with Plath in an Oct. 20, 2012, post by the satirical Tumblr account Incorrect Sylvia ...

Rather, her album may actually be an ode to poet Sylvia Plath, and naturally, Swifties are shook. TikToker @rubym364 found many references to Plath within the album, leading her to theorize that ...