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 ...

The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

However, 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 ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks ... hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst ...

Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.

Confessional poetry or “confessionalism” is verse whose autobiographical detail is deeply personal to the poet.Universally acclaimed poet Sylvia Plath wrote ... s pleas fall flat.They just ...