The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia ... "Last Letter," describes Hughes' anguish in the days leading up to Plath's ...

American-born poet Sylvia Plath and her two small children battled sickness as they tried to keep warm. But 30-year-old Plath wasn’t just fighting flu; the emotional strain of the last five ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the ... Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst of poetic ...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

In a similar way, Sylvia Plath has this poem In Plaster, which I was fortunate to get permission to quote a little from in the book, and that is about a woman lying in bed in a full plaster.

Sylvia Plath. Cape Cod Journal ... At the end of the novel, however, Plath became overwhelmed with “the hair-raising fineness of the last 50 pages”: Bernard’s summary, an essay on life, on the problem ...