Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she's been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the 'real' Plath, asks Lillian Crawford.

Fifty years after her death, Sylvia Plath continues to captivate writers and readers. But her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much ...

On the 50th anniversary of the day Sylvia Plath left milk on a tray for her two sleeping children and put her head into an oven, the cultural ...

RICHMOND, Oct. 30 -- An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" will appear Wednesday in a Virginia online ...

Sylvia Plath: The poet known for searingly honest prose and battle with depression Her descriptions of mental illness were vivid: ‘Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other ...

“I’ve been slowly reading more contemporary poetry—someone like James Wright, or Sylvia Plath, who is probably my biggest influence among contemporary poets.

It may not be published on a piece of paper, but the presence of poetry is interwoven throughout our days, author Sylvia Vardell writes.

To fully understand Ted Hughes as a poet means plumbing a world he inhabited long before he knew Sylvia Plath and, in his best poems after her death, continued to live in.

She's now published several collections of poetry, including Wooroloo, Stonepicker and The Book of Mirrors. How old is Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter?

Fifty years after her death, Sylvia Plath continues to captivate writers and readers. But her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much ...