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 ...

Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

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.

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 ...

BBC radio interview, Sylvia Plath described how she first met Ted Hughes: “I happened to be at Cambridge… I’d read some of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, Paul ...

Sylvia Plath with husband Ted Hughes in Massachusetts, 1959. Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo. Ariel is also the name of a horse Sylvia rides in an early draft of the titular poem, which ...

Sylvia Plath is also a poet of protest and her fury against a world dominated by men finds expression in a group of poems in the restored Ariel. There’s The Rabbit Catcher, The Detective and my ...