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 ...

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 ...

Sylvia Plath was an American poet of the mid-20th century who killed herself at age 30. She was married to British poet laureate Ted Hughes, but the poem does not portray relationship or love.

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 ...

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 ...

Dan Chiasson on a recently published volume of Plath’s correspondence, which is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet’s legacy.

JULY 9, 1962: Sylvia Plath raced to catch the phone call before Ted Hughes could intercept it.She recognized the woman asking for him, even though Assia Wevill lowered her voice, pretending ...

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 ...