Six days before she died, Sylvia Plath wrote two very different poems: “Balloons,” which evokes two children at play with inflated “oval soul-animals,” and “Edge,” which paints the ...

Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters A new volume of her correspondence is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet’s legacy. By Dan Chiasson ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...

The last days of Sylvia Plath Fifty years after her suicide, a new biography of the Boston-born poet--the first to draw on the recently opened Ted Hughes archives--reveals a period of absolute ...

The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers. By James Parker January/February 2019 Issue ...

The draft poem, called "Last Letter," describes Hughes' anguish in the days leading up to Plath's death in her London home on February 11, 1963. Beginning with "What happened that night?

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Poet Ted Hughes’ long-lost poem ‘Last Letter’ will be ...

A previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes that details the painful moments surrounding the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath is being published by The New Statesman on Thursday, the magazine said.

This vintage print of Sylvia Plath was taken in 1959 at her 9 Willow Street apartment in Boston. National Portrait Gallery The narrative of Sylvia Plath’s life that paints her as a tragic figure ...

A poem by Ted Hughes that describes the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself has been published for the first time.

On February 11, 1963, following a long struggle with depression, Sylvia Plath died by suicide in her London home at the age of just 30 after sticking her head in the oven. Now considered one of ...