Plath—a self-aware archivist concerned with the legacy of her papers, especially in the final months of her life—didn’t make it clear which poem she wrote last.

The Plath material is estimated to sell for between £30,000 and £35,000 (approximately $45,000 to $53,000) and is likely to break records for the sale of her literary manuscripts.

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.

LONDON – A poem by Ted Hughes that describes the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself has been published for the first time. The draft poem, called "Last Letter," chronicles Hughes ...

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.

Poet Ted Hughes’ long-lost poem ‘Last Letter’ will be published Thursday in The New Statesman, BBC4 reported Wednesday afternoon. The poem directly addresses the suicide of his wife, the ...

On October 13, 1959, a Tuesday, Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother and brother from Saratoga Springs, New York, where she and her husband, Ted Hughes, were passing a couple of months at the Yaddo ...

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?

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 today, the magazine said.Hughes, an ...

The last days of Sylvia Plath Fifty years after her suicide, ... Ted seemed amenable to a divorce, and she was writing every morning at 5, a poem per day completed before breakfast.

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 ...