ABOVE: Sylvia Plath, her mother and two children in 1962. Professor Lynda K Bundtzen, author of The Other Ariel points to the ‘bee’ poems Plath wrote in October 1962. “Why would any woman be ...

Sylvia Plath and her younger brother Warren were raised ... images of which would surface prominently in poems collected in Ariel. Otto met Plath’s mother, the daughter of Austrian immigrants ...

While Plath's work is not the sole focus of Van Dyne's writing and teaching, she has written extensively about the poet and her work. Van Dyne's Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems, published by ...

After Plath’s death, her husband Ted Hughes published a different version of Ariel, cutting 12 poems from the typescript and adding 14 poems that she did not include in the original sequence. The back ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn ... of [intimate partner violence] are at the heart of much of Plath’s ‘Ariel’ poetry.” Van Duyne’s digression into feminist analytic ...

there may be an important clue to the timing of his suicide in a poem that Sylvia Plath wrote about him shortly before her suicide. In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her collection, Ariel ...

Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the ... the literary critic Al Alvarez, described Plath’s Ariel poems as “a murderous art,” and another, George Steiner, wrote ...

Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at age 30, may be intrinsically linked with death, but, for much of her short life, she was in love with the world. She wrung sensorial pleasures to the last drop: ...