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 ...
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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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‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ is an indictment of Ted Hughes
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Sylvia Plath always wore red lipstick. Does it matter?
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, ...