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

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 ...

The back cover of the British edition of Ariel published by Faber & Faber in 1965 lists all 44 Faber poets, including Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. In just 10 years, Plath had joined the ranks of ...

ABOVE: Sylvia Plath, her mother and two children in 1962. Professor Lynda K Bundtzen, author of The Other Ariel points to the ‘bee’ poems Plath wrote in October 1962. “Why would any woman be ...

Sylvia Plath’s death was a heartbreaking end to a brilliant yet troubled life. Beyond the circumstances of her passing, her poetry and prose remain some of the most powerful literary works ever ...

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 ...

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