Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

Thus, any published book that offers up more of this material to readers across the world is a literary event. At over 800 pages, The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath is a tome. It displays Plath ...

Sylvia Plath. Cape Cod Journal: typescript, 17 July 1957. Responding to The Waves in her journal, Plath was initially “disturbed” and “almost angered” with Woolf’s “endless sun, waves, birds, and the ...

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, ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression.

“Loving Sylvia Plath” also turns its feminist gaze on ... s biographers (though their efforts didn’t stanch the flow of books). At the same time, Hughes promoted Plath’s poetic legacy.

Sylvia Plath leaving home for England, September 11, 1955, after she won a Fulbright fellowship to Newnham College, Cambridge. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, and the Estate of ...

Sylvia Plath and her younger brother Warren were raised ... celebrated in poetry a woman’s experience. From Lowell, whose book of poems Life Studies persuaded her that it was acceptable to ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath ...

The letters of the poet Sylvia Plath written between 1956 and 1963 read by Lydia Wilson.

Unlike Plath, who goes from her gut, Fainlight goes through her eye. And there’s the sharpness of that visual.” New & Collected Poems by Ruth Fainlight, 2010 (Bloodaxe Books, £20) Somewhere ...

That’s right; the Melancholia star is set to bring Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar ... One month after the book’s publication in 1963, Sylvia tragically committed suicide.