22-word love poem may look simple – but it's deemed one of best ever
The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...
Sylvia Plath, Robert Graves and me: Ruth Fainlight’s life in verse
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 ...
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Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry
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 ...
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Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath: Fact or Fiction?
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 ...
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Modern-ish Poets: Sylvia Plath
Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry. They consider the balance ... is one of the most famous... Read more about Love and Death: ...
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks ... hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst ...