The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show.

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 ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...

He published Plath’s poetry (1965 ... They represent the first time that Plath has been allowed to speak for herself since her death in 1963. While over a hundred biographies and critical works have ...

Ted Hughes separated from Sylvia before Nicholas's first birthday and only months ... clue to the timing of his suicide in a poem that Sylvia Plath wrote about him shortly before her suicide.

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding ... what ...