Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

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 ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious, and ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the ... Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst of poetic productivity, the poems collected in Ariel (1965), drove her fully to ...