Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, united in feminine drive: a poet’s perspective from a new book

Sylvia Plath achieved posthumous fame as a representative of "high art," but don't be fooled about her artistic goals, writes ...
New York Sun

Sylvia Plath, Beekeeper, Mother, and Poet, Is Subject of a New Book for Young Readers

Sylvia Plath loved to draw, write poems, keep bees, and tend to her two children. That a poet has now brought together all elements of the writer’s life in a book for young readers that celebrates ...
Yahoo

Dead Poets Live: Sylvia Plath, review - A refreshing look at the poet's exhuberant personality

When Sylvia Plath was a teenager in Boston in the 1940s, she wrote herself a list of personal commandments. They included working hard at school and “learn German” – something Plath kept intending, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Ted Hughes poem on Sylvia Plath published

nepalnepal — 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 ...
New Republic

Was Sylvia Plath Just A "Minor Poet"?

On this day 51 years ago, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at her home in London, England. In 1981, William H. Pritchard wrote an appraisal of Plath's work in The New Republic on the occasion of the ...

Taylor Swift, the Sylvia Plath of her generation? Maggie Nelson has got this one wrong in The Slicks

There are plenty of curious ideas to pursue when examining the global phenomenon of Swift in 2025. The patriarchy hating ...
WRAL

Sylvia Plath, a Postwar Poet Unafraid to Confront Her Own Despair

She made sure to spare the children, leaving milk and bread for the two toddlers to find when they woke up. She stuffed the cracks of the doors and windows with cloths and tea towels. Then she turned ...
WESA

Sylvia Plath's Husband, Ted Hughes, Lived A Life Of Poetry And Tragedy

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...
Salon

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath's private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...
NPR

On The 50th Anniversary Of Sylvia Plath's Death, A Look At Her Beginning

Craig Morgan Teicher's latest collection of poetry is called To Keep Love Blurry. Fifty years ago today, Sylvia Plath ended her life as a major poet and an artist of the highest order. But one could ...
Seattle Times

Ted Hughes poem on Sylvia Plath published

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. The ...