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 ...

The poet Ted Hughes inspired his wife Sylvia Plath to partake in magic, however this led to her tragic downfall ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took ... both of his parents' poetry. In "Nick and the Candlestick," published in Plath's posthumous collection ...

Sylvia Plath and her younger brother Warren were ... Bell Jar had been accepted for publication and several of Plath’s poems were appearing in prominent literary reviews. To those who didn ...

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, ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s naked,” she says. “She says it as it is. Unlike Plath ...

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.

Confessional poetry or “confessionalism” is verse whose autobiographical detail is deeply personal to the poet.Universally acclaimed poet Sylvia Plath ... beauty with Plath’s poetry and ...