In her seminal 1994 work on Plath and Ted Hughes, The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm writes, “The history of her life … is a signature story of the fearful, double-faced fifties.Plath embodies in ...

In Pain, Parties, Work, poet Elizabeth Winder has painstakingly sketched a fully fleshed portrait of Plath's life during that hot, seminal summer, offering a glimpse into the raison d'etre behind ...

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet who grew in prominence during the so-called “Confessional” period in poetry of the 1950s-1960s, which saw such poets as Robert Lowell (1917 ...

The 12-inch-high statuette was cast from a terra-cotta maquette, or study model, for a never-completed, full-sized memorial proposed by Plath's friend Elizabeth Sigmund, to whom the poet dedicated her ...

D id Sylvia Plath predict it all? That’s what we’d like to think. In her work, we’re always looking for prophecies about her life – and when I say her life, I mostly mean her death.