Almost a century after she was born, Sylvia Plath is still winning admirers.The famous poet and Smith College graduate, who took her life in 1963 and was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has ...

Sylvia Plath with husband Ted Hughes in Massachusetts, 1959. Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo. Ariel is also the name of a horse Sylvia rides in an early draft of the titular poem, which ...

She goes on to note that suspicions that the Hughes-Plath relationship was violent were voiced as early as 1970, when Robin Morgan included in her anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful” a poem by ...

So significant was Plath’s contribution to modern poetry (her most recent biographer, Heather Clark, describes her as “perhaps the best-known American woman poet of the 20th century”) that ...