32 of Sylvia Plath’s letters to her husband and fellow poet Ted Hughes will be on sale at Sotheby’s starting July 9. Sothebys. Plath, the writer behind such poems as “Daddy” and “Lady ...

Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more ...

I was too — just two of countless teenage girls since the ’60s to proclaim our love for the bracing and violent "Ariel" poems, and "The Bell Jar," Plath’s fictionalized account of her first ...

Sylvia Plath with her two children and her mother Aurelia in Devon, England c. 1962. Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo . The letters are, simply put, brutal.

E very year, I make a pilgrimage to Sylvia Plath’s grave in Heptonstall with a close friend. We take pens to leave at her headstone and we sit in the grass and sometimes we write poems of our ...

Sylvia Plath lived only to the age of 30—this year marks the 60th anniversary of her death. When you consider all that has been written about her, and the writers still thinking of her, the ...

Their findings are on display in an exhibit created in collaboration with the Botanic Garden of Smith College that opens September 15 in Lyman Plant House and Conservatory. The Bell Jars: Lyman ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman, Paul ...