Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet and novelist, explored her obsessions with death, self, and nature in works that expressed her ambivalent attitudes toward the universe. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston's Memorial Hospital on October 27, 1932, to Aurelia...

Now famous for her ritual flirtations with death, Sylvia Plath has emerged as a significant fig- ure in contemporary American literature in the two and a half decades since her suicide on 11 February 1963. Her reputation as an accomplished and...

In his introduction to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-62 (1982), her husband, poet Ted Hughes, wrote that she wore "many masks" but that he believes he knew her "real self" -- "the self I had married, after all, and lived with and knew well." Yet...

Author Sylvia Plath's association with death and madness stemmed from her confessional poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, and the facts of her life, but most of all from the cult of readers—many of them teenage girls—that formed after...

Plath is widely considered one of the most emotionally evocative and compelling American poets of the postwar period. Although Plath gained only modest critical success during her lifetime, after her suicide at the age of thirty and the subsequent...

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The...

There were hints that I might be Sylvia Plath reincarnated as early as high school, but confirmation didn't arrive until the summer of 1996, shortly before my 21st birthday. As a 16-year-old, I'd won Seventeen magazine's annual fiction contest, as Plath had done in 1950,...

Diane Middlebrook, a leading feminist scholar who wrote acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, died Saturday. She was 68.Middlebrook, who helped launch feminist studies at Stanford University, where she taught literature for 35 years, died of cancer in San Francisco, according to...

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement, by Sylvia Plath, with an introduction by Frieda Hughes. HarperCollins, 211 pages, $24.95. On the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, in the alleyway behind 23 Fitzroy Road in snowbound London,...

Rep. Julia CarsonINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69.Carson died of lung cancer at her home, where she had...

In the following essay, Broe discusses Plath's poetic vision during the writing of The Colossus.

In the following essay, Ramazani argues that Plath's poems expressing grief fit the criteria of modern elegy and that Plath expanded the genre by adding a tone of abiding anger.

In the following essay, Manners examines similarities regarding images of paternity in the works of Plath and French feminist writer Hélène Cixous.

Discusses the work of Sylvia Plath and includes an analysis of most of her poems.

Compares the work of three poets, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and John Keats. Explores how each poet uses imagery and rhyming patterns. Provides brief biographical detail on each poet.

Argues that Sylvia Plath was not a real feminist. Concludes that though she desired artistic fulfilment, she wanted to be an ideal wife and mother at the same time.