Ted met Sylvia Plath at Cambridge University. At that time, Ted’s parents had become firmly ensconced at their home in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation’ By Emily Van Duyne W.W. Norton, 320 pages “Loving Sylvia Plath” is such a bold and original book that it confirms my conviction that we are only at the beginning ...

A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage The Boston-born poet’s 1963 suicide cut short a brilliant career. By Wendy Smith Globe correspondent, Updated July 9, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

In “ Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman ...

Reaction against the biography, led by Plath’s editor and sort-of-friend A. Alvarez, was swift. Malcolm is at times critical of the pugnacious Olwyn and the selectively sensitive Ted, and she ...

In 1962, she wrote many of the poems which would become part of her notable poetry collection “Ariel.” In February of 1963, Plath died by suicide at 30 years old.