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

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 ...

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 ...

Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the throat.” So said the late, great Robert Frost. While Frost was referring to the poet’s writing process, the same can be said ...

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art Vault.