The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

For Sylvia Plath, less was more -- at least, when it came to her favorite cocktail. Discover which iconic tipple was beloved ...

A passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, now widely known online as the fig tree metaphor, has become a rallying cry for ...

When Sylvia Plath was a teenager in Boston in the 1940s, she wrote herself a list of personal commandments. They included working hard at school and “learn German” – something Plath kept ...

Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she's been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the 'real' Plath, asks Lillian Crawford.

Or After Sylvia, a new anthology of poetry by writers inspired by Plath. And then there are Plath’s drawings, recently published by Faber, which reveal a more playful creative side to her, and ...

For a better insight into this young poet’s breakdown, her ex-husband’s letters tell us most of what we need to know about the terrible events of 11 February 1963; the day Sylvia Plath gassed ...