BBC radio interview, Sylvia Plath described how she first met Ted Hughes: “I happened to be at Cambridge… I’d read some of ...

Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is one of the most important books of poetry of the 20 th century, and among the most controversial. In February of 1963, when Plath committed suicide, she left behind a ...

Nobody brought a house to life the way Plath did. Ariel, despite the tragedy that attends it, ... Sylvia Plath’s Joy. By Dan Chiasson. February 12, 2013. Save this story ...

Sylvia Plath is also a poet of protest and her fury against a world dominated by men finds expression in a group of poems in the restored Ariel. There’s The Rabbit Catcher, The Detective and my ...

Certainly, she’s remembered for her prolific creative output, which resulted in such works as The Bell Jar and Ariel. But Sylvia Plath’s death informs her legacy as well.

THE STORM BENEATH “THE CALM": It’s not news to Sylvia Plath scholars or serious fans that after her suicide her husband, Ted Hughes, altered her manuscript for Ariel (Faber and Faber, 1965 ...

Loving Sylvia Plath, subtitled “A Reclamation”, by Emily Van Duyne, is a case study from this genre, a bold and idiosyncratic volume that takes the traditional reader of Ariel into a world of ...

Sylvia Plath with her two children and her mother Aurelia in Devon, England c. 1962. ... in her final Ariel poems, which were subsequently collected by Hughes after her death.

Reading Sylvia Plath and my dead friend’s Instagram ... When I got home from packing up Heather’s apartment, I wrote “Heather’s” on the title page of her copy of “Ariel ...

Sylvia Plath with husband Ted Hughes in Massachusetts, 1959. Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo. Ariel is also the name of a horse Sylvia rides in an early draft of the titular poem, which ...