Sylvia Plath’s poem 1962 poem “Daddy,” which faithfully chronicles her own struggles with her father, contains what has been confirmed as an uncomfortable truth: Otto Plath may have harbored strong ...
For those who have “Lady Lazarus” memorized by heart and can explain every stanza of “Daddy,” the opening of Smith College’s Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium this weekend’s event should be standard ...
Just before she died, Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, “I am writing the best poems of my life. They will make my name.” They were the “Ariel” poems—and she was right. Just yesterday she was inducted ...
Bustle: 5 Haunting Sylvia Plath Poems You Won't Be Able To Forget
ONLY rarely, and almost never when still alive, does a poet become the object of a cult. Sylvia Plath, age thirty, died in London in 1963, leaving behind her a sheaf of terrifying poems. Since then, ...
New York Daily News: Sylvia Plath’s father came under FBI suspicion for pro-German sympathies
Yahoo: Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography
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, ...
On the 50th anniversary of the day Sylvia Plath left milk on a tray for her two sleeping children and put her head into an oven, the cultural fascination with her shows no signs of abating. Though one ...