In Emily Van Duhn's 'Loving Sylvia Plath,' a new look at the poet's brief life and violent marriage. ... LOVING SYLVIA PLATH: A Reclamation. By Emily Van Duyne. Norton, 336 pages, $27.99.

However, Plath’s untimely death by suicide has skewed much interpretation of her poetry. The well-versed argument that Plath only uses nature in her poetry as a “mirror to look deeper into ...

Sylvia Plath. Via Poetry Foundation. CARL ROLLYSON Jul. 17, 2024 04:05 AM ET. ... The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath” as “definitive,” and seemed almost giddy with the notion that the full ...

There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

Sylvia Plath lived only to the age of 30—this year marks the 60th ... we find them pressed into the hundreds of diary entries and letters and poems that she makes full use of in her ...

Poet Ted Hughes met Sylvia Plath 1956. "They were both geniuses, says biographer Jonathan Bate. Hughes is shown above on the first day of trout fishing season in April 1986.

I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath. I was just about to graduate school and begin my life. My mind was overflowing with ideas, countries, and careers I wanted to pursue.

A title like “The Occult Sylvia Plath” may arouse suspicions of some kind of esoteric study, not a full-fledged biography, and that is what Julia Gordon-Bramer offers: a close reading of the events in ...

Sylvia Plath has been lhe subject of more attention than any other young American poet in recent years. Her posthumous book, ARIEL, is here considered by Peter Davison, whose new collection of ...

Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at 30, wrote "Ennui" in 1955 in her senior year at Smith College, said Anna Journey, a graduate student in creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.