The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son ...

Sylvia Plath leaving home for England ... In Plath’s manuscript of Ariel and Other Poems, she overcame a failed marriage and reinvented herself as a fearless White Goddess, a Godiva riding her lioness ...

Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems. We had read Plath's Ariel alongside the original drafts (all part of the rare book room's Plath collection), trying to understand the poet through her editing process. We ...

Sylvia Plath. “Ariel”: holograph, 27 October 1962. Click on any image to open it at full size in a new window.

The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show.

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the ... the literary critic Al Alvarez, described Plath’s Ariel ...

there may be an important clue to the timing of his suicide in a poem that Sylvia Plath wrote about him shortly before her suicide. In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her collection, Ariel ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...