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 ...

In the literary world, there have been writers who marry – Percy and Mary Shelley, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. But few, if any, literary couples ...

Poet Tess Taylor reflects on how we read Sylvia Plath's poetry, 50 years after her death. ... Have you read the posthumous poems by Sylvia Plath? Robert Lowell wrote Elizabeth Bishop later that year.

Lastly, HarperCollins will publish Elizabeth Winder’s Pain, Parties, Work, an account of Plath’s 1953 summer in New York that served as the inspiration for her novel The Bell Jar.

In the second volume of her collected letters, Plath relays the highs and lows of her marriage to Ted Hughes. ... Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.

Sylvia Plath. Notes on Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (English 211), 1951-1952. During her sophomore year at Smith College, Sylvia Plath studied twentieth-century literature with ...

Sylvia Plath’s celebrity has outlived that of so many of her contemporaries. Her husband, Ted Hughes, the more famous of the two while they were married and the root of so much of her misery ...