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For Sylvia Plath, less was more -- at least, when it came to her favorite cocktail. Discover which iconic tipple was beloved ...
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BBC radio interview, Sylvia Plath described how she first met Ted Hughes: “I happened to be at Cambridge… I’d read some of ...
Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...
In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark, or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman ...
The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave ...
The six Sylvia Plath poems in focus here are “Mushrooms,” “You’re,” “The Babysitters,” “The Applicant,” “Ariel,” and “Edge.” Sarah Ruden deftly distributes discussions of the poems into a succinct and ...
The Daffodil Days depicts a pivotal year in the marriage of 20th-century literature’s most infamous couple, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
T he Welcome To Plathville season 7 has been released, which teases a confrontation between exes Ethan Plath and Olivia Plath ...
Clark used the wartime record she discovered in her grandfather’s scrapbook, which was compiled by two of his sisters, to ...
In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman, Paul ...