In Sylvia Plath and the Trope of Vulnerability, critic Vottald UtonAe observes that her “most powerful poems command empathy” ...

A collection of items that belonged to the American writer Sylvia Plath, including personal photos, letters, and drawings, is on sale now in a dedicated, 55-lot online auction hosted by Sotheby’s ...

Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ambition, ...

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...

Lily Allen’s West End Girl blends confessional songwriting with sharp social commentary, drawing comparisons to Sylvia ...

What does the metaphor of the bell jar reveal about the life and work of Sylvia Plath ’55? Associate Professor of Anthropology Colin Hoag and his students have been exploring that question in a ...

The reason why there are so many books about Sylvia Plath (not just biographies) is that she is multitudinous. So often misidentified as a confessional poet, she actually lived and wrote in the ...

In “Red Comet,” biographer Heather Clark describes Sylvia Plath facing her husband Ted Hughes’s abandonment with a poem by British writer Stevie Smith taped above the desk. She is writing the ...

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath during happier times. Sotheby / YouTube Rather, her correspondences offer gleaming windows into her terrifying intellect, which was as probing and deconstructive as it was ...

The writer is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more complicated. By Katie Roiphe How the allegations against Sean Combs change the ...

In “The Serious World,” the latest collection from former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read, the poem “Dear Sylvia,” addressed ...