Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

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

In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the husband of the late poet and Smith graduate Sylvia Plath--writes for the first time of their troubled marriage. Plath committed suicide in 1963, ...