Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath ... She summarizes Plath’s life, reflects on her afterlife and selectively analyzes her poetry — all through the lens of ...

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

The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...

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, who goes from her ...

Confessional poetry or “confessionalism” is verse whose autobiographical detail is deeply personal to the poet.Universally acclaimed poet Sylvia Plath wrote ... dazzlingMy love for you is ...

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 ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks ... hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst ...

The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at age 30, may be intrinsically linked with death, but, for much of her short life, she was in love with the world ... Ted Hughes, in a poem, recalling the “dipped, ...

Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.