The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show.

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...