Tragic poet Sylvia Plath's son kills himself
The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression. Nicholas Hughes, whose ...
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Husband's poem on Sylvia Plath’s suicide published
The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed ... a phone call broke the news of Plath's death.
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we ... Its purpose is not to announce the news of having had a ...
Sylvia Plath, Robert Graves and me: Ruth Fainlight’s life in verse
Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...
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Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath: Fact or Fiction?
Van Dyne's Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems ... when she decided to teach a course about Plath during January Interterm this year as the Plath news swirled about. The students who took the ...
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Sylvia Plath: Images in the Mirror
"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...
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‘A literary event’: Sylvia Plath memorabilia can fetch as much as $1m. A new book reveals a treasure trove of material
His blog Sylvia Plath Info offers a wealth of knowledge ... won the prize for drawing the best Civil Defense signs. But in a newspaper article titled The Atomic Threat, Plath is more overt about ...