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How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage ... Hill Fields," the poems in "Ariel" seem to substantively build off her own personal experience with losing an unborn child. A poem imbued ...
A lot of us find it hard to put how we’re feeling about the world into words. But one third grader has no such problem, and their feminist poem has people calling them the “Gen Z Sylvia Plath ...
Books & the Arts / In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. Lynne Feeley In the ...
On the Shelf. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. By Heather Clark Knopf: 1,152 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop ...
It is fifty years since Sylvia Plath killed herself, in her flat in London, near Primrose Hill, in a house where William Butler Yeats once lived. She was thirty-one. Her two children, Frieda, age ...
I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath. I was just about to graduate school and begin my life. My mind was overflowing with ideas, countries, and careers I wanted to pursue.
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath had a turbulent relationship. Evening Standard/Getty Images. As Clark explains in “Red Comet,” one day in early February 1961, Plath, who was four months pregnant ...