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 ...

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement, by Sylvia Plath, with an introduction by Frieda Hughes. HarperCollins, 211 pages ...

“Sylvia Plath becomes herself,” is how poet Robert Lowell introduced Ariel in 1965, going on to call the collection a work that immortalized her as one of the “great classical heroines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago Monday, Sylvia Plath, a 30-year-old American living in England, ... “When her poetry collection ‘Ariel’ appeared in 1966, it became a sensation. Using vivid, ...

It's been nearly 40 years since Sylvia Plath's last poetic compilation, Ariel was published. The collection was edited by -- or some might even say tampered with -- Plath's husband, the poet Ted ...

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.

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath's private letters, which had previously not been made public, ... And only in the fully restored 2004 edition of "Ariel" did they appear as Plath intended.