| 单词 | Plath |
| 例句 | "In my lit class we listened to a recording of Sylvia Plath. Her voice wasn't what I thought it would sound like." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Audrey began giggling, and Plath took that to mean it was time to play. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She clipped the leash to Plath’s collar, and we started walking back toward the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The poem “Barren Woman” was written by a woman who committed suicide, and I’m pretty sure of it—her name was Sylvia Plath. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Plath was still barking at me and trying to bite my fingers, but I stopped cold. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Plath ignored her and barked at the water as if she thought she could annoy it into submission. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I threw a stick down the beach for Plath to chase. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Audrey whistled when Plath wandered too close to the water, but the stupid dog ignored her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It lists Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton, Sylvia Plath, and a bunch of other smart people who were kind of nuts. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The tiny terror was barely the size of a football, and answered to the name Plath. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Plath crawled into my lap and licked my chin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Risbridger has also been compared to Sylvia Plath, which she finds both flattering and alarming. Review | Cooking can be therapeutic. For Ella Risbridger, it saved her life. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Nor is there any of the seductive poetry in her character’s will to die that we stupidly associate with literary suicides like Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism, but the real future may just be scarier. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z She also said that she was sure that Sylvia Plath never wanted it published under her own name.Well, yes. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z Paltrow can also be drily funny, emphasised by that dark vocal husk – a damp underside of bark which worked so well when she played Sylvia Plath. Bow down to the vulva! Why Gwyneth's Goop Lab isn't all bad 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Engaging and revealing, “The Letters of Sylvia Plath” offers a captivating look into the life and inner thinking of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Sylvia Plath’s copy of “The Great Gatsby” speaks to the value of marginalia. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Living again in London, her “madness” having returned, Plath decided to end her life. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Alvarez’s memories of Plath enraged Hughes, who accused his onetime friend of betraying their privacy that led to a yearslong estrangement. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Plath begins "Thalidomide" with the image of "O half moon." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z And “Plath Heart” — with concise vocal phrases threaded through a maze of leaping, stop-start instrumental lines — envisions giving birth. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z Landau's killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath — leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire. How Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, Cecilia Woloch bear witness 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z "I think it's much easier to pick the three greatest dead writers– my three favourites for the 20th century would be Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia Plath." The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z So declared a senior student in a furious critique of Sylvia Plath's poetry. We can see the gender bias of all-boys’ schools by the books they study in English 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z To me, this new biographical information, together with Plath's drafts and journal entries, reveals how she channeled this painful experience into her poetry. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Plath wrestled with the onerous double standards of the 1950s. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z But his book and its passage about Plath’s long, loosened hair and its smell “sharp as an animal’s” helped raise speculation over whether he and the poet were lovers. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z He overlooks, for example, the fact that for poets like Plath and Louise Glück and Susan Wheeler, inhabiting — and substantively revising — a predominantly masculine creative tradition was itself a political act. A Fresh Look at How Poets Evolve Over the Course of a Career 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The phrases from Plath's earlier drafts are illuminating: "I was a flat personage," it was "a clean killing," and it was all "Final, like a bad accident." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Novel humour … Sylvia Plath blended bleakness with comedy in The Bell Jar. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z Plath was little-known before her death but gained a cult following through the novel "The Bell Jar," whose descriptions of a suicidal young woman foreshadowed her own death at age 30. Poem by Ted Hughes tells of Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-07T18:32:00Z We are familiar with Plath’s fierceness, the power of her imagination to exact revenge, to correct humiliations, to create dark drama out of despair. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The voice that Plath eventually created is indeed fresh, brazen and colloquial, but also sardonic and bitter, the story of a young woman's psychological disintegration and eventual – provisional – recovery. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z In 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote these lines: “I am a mountain now, among mountainy women / The doctors move among us as if our bigness / Frightened the mind.” Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Instead of depleting my interest in Plath, the book stimulated it further; I found myself going on to read two books of critical essays about her right after I was done reading it. Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Certainly Plath and Anne Sexton claimed a kind of imaginative power that could match, even exceed that of male poets. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z That previous book reveals that the glamour-girl-visiting-Manhattan idea has personal appeal for Winder, and that she, like Plath, identifies as a poet. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z And the final line of the poem – "The constriction killing me also" – points to Plath's feeling as if she, too, is dying. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z When I came to write my history of women and the mind doctors Mad, Bad and Sad, Plath's story played its part: her journals are a resonant source. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z To Plath devotees, the necklace is a tantalizing totem of the pyrotechnics generated by her relationship with Mr. Hughes. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Andy Warhol, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath and Lena Dunham were all winners of these awards, given annually to a select group of students in Grades 7 through 12. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Such as: Last year, Faber’s revamping of Plath’s nom de plume sparked internet outrage. The most incongruous book covers of all time 2013-05-10T16:05:23Z But it was impossible to know how much of that was due to the knowledge of Plath's tragedy, and how much the writing. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z Her intention was to humanize Plath, to reveal her as a healthy all-American girl. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Plath was furious that he could have been having an affair while simultaneously being, as she wrote, so "impervious" to the "innumerable little umbilical cords" that tied her to her unborn child and 10-month-old girl. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Alas, it went very much the other way — the “psychic osmosis” between mother and daughter, of which Aurelia was so proud, was perceived to be pathological, and perhaps even the root cause of Plath’s depression. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Plath told one friend that Hughes would “bash my head in” if she tried to “boss” him and mentioned “violent disagreements” to her mother and “rousing battles” to her brother, Warren. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Sylvia Plath may have died at the age of 30, but in her short life she produced an enormous body of writing. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “Plath was miserable, but she created art, and the skirt is a representation of that struggle.” Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z But few, if any, literary couples are as well known for the end of their marriage as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Plot A hallucinatory riff on the tormented lives of the poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Robert Lowell. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z He does not say much about how we ought to understand Plath instead, but presumably he sees her as unlucky rather than doomed by her demons. Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z When the two are teaching for a year in the United States, Plath worries that her hunky husband seems over-friendly with some female students. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Surely pointedly, Cawood's daughter, dead in despair at 18, is buried in the Heptonstall cemetery that holds the grave of the poet Sylvia Plath. Happy Valley TV review – Sarah Lancashire gives her best performance 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Her death was ruled a suicide, although Alvarez would question whether Plath — who had two small children — had meant to kill herself. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z That Hughes was simultaneously pursuing two women known to Plath was a source of acute humiliation. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z "A gift, a love gift / Utterly unasked for / By a sky ..." as Sylvia Plath wrote in "Poppies in October" — one of the poems that has been sent. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The proof of Plath's semiautobiographical novel bears her pseudonym, "Victoria Lucas." Rare Sylvia Plath proof goes up for auction 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z As for Plath, Léger quotes from her journal regarding her “submerging” herself in a man’s existence and being “supremely happy with my newfound selfless self.” Barbara Loden: “A Woman Telling Her Own Story Through That of Another Woman” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Correction: May 4, 2013 An earlier version of this article misstated how long ago Sylvia Plath committed suicide. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-04T04:00:58Z She noted that Ms. Plath’s mother, Aurelia, kept everything of her daughter’s, even crumpled bits of tracing paper that Sylvia scribbled on as a child, giving scholars unusual access to her material world. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z In this new book of letters, written between 1956 and 1963, ending a week before Plath’s death, at 30, we see the goals triumphantly and tragically fulfilled. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z How did Sylvia Plath try to “solve the problem of herself,” so that her husband, Ted Hughes, would love her? Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes This year, as anyone of a poetic temperament cannot fail to have noticed, is the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s suicide. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z The society has an archive of Mr. Updike’s materials, including letters, currently held at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., and Mr. Plath said some of that material might end up being displayed at the house. ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z To reread Plath’s “Ariel” in the context of her last letters before her death, the brilliant, bristling style falling away, is to marvel at the triumph of creativity amid despair. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z What about the Plath story, “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams,” draws your attention? Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Frieda Hughes is thumbing through her first book of poetry, trying to find the poem she wrote about the poems her father, Ted Hughes, wrote about her mother, Sylvia Plath. Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Otto Plath was of German origin but therein any similarity to the Nazi figure he is transmuted into in “Daddy” ends. Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Paul Alexander is the author of “Rough Magic,” a biography of Sylvia Plath, and “Edge,” a one-woman play about her. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “Perhaps if Plath had had connections to the London stage, she might have tried her hand there,” suggests Susan R. Van Dyne, a Plath expert who teaches at Smith College. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, he imagines Plath calling him repeatedly at his flat and getting no answer. On Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath 2010-10-11T12:24:00Z She discovered poetry in high school through Sylvia Plath — "her muscular language reminds me of Tagalog," Joseph says when we correspond by email. Introducing Janine Joseph, a talented poet who writes of being undocumented 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Plath “is one of the first poets a lot of young women find who they can really claim as their own,” he said. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z The letters Plath wrote to Barnhouse would be her most revealing. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath called herself in a poem. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z What makes Sylvia Plath such a good writer is her ability to write imagery. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z To Plath, this response was evidence of an affair. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Plath worked one summer for Mademoiselle, drawing on her experience there in “The Bell Jar.” The Magazine Business, From the Coolest Place to the Coldest One 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Another poet, who did write an outstanding novel and may well have gone on to write more, was Sylvia Plath. The allure of the first novel 2013-01-12T08:30:01Z However, Allen Ginsberg and Sylvia Plath, both missing, are significant losses. Don't miss Rita Dove's intro to poetry anthology 2011-10-26T21:57:03Z These desperate letters, which until recently were privately held, provide astonishing insight into Plath’s inner state in the troubled months when she wrote her strongest poems. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In junior high, during in my raging Sylvia Plath stage, I was talking to Dad in his den and he said, “Go get me a cup of coffee.” My personal Michigan recount: The official vote review is off, but I only needed answers from one family — my own 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In their happier days, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes often stopped in for a pint. Two favorite neighborhoods in London: Marylebone and Bloomsbury 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Nor did Bishop finish her “long-procrastinated” book of essays on Brazil, or complete the introduction to a volume of Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother, due for publication in 1975. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The first volume of Sylvia Plath’s letters, published last year, revealed the young Plath, from summer camp to Smith College, intent on two goals: to flay herself into becoming a writer and to marry. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Sylvia Plath's only novel The Bell Jar opens in a New York heatwave, which the book's first sentence famously describes as "a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs ..." Culture flash: heatwaves 2011-08-03T20:45:01Z Two weeks before Plath started writing "Thalidomide," on Oct. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z I don’t think Rich returned Plath’s ferocious competitiveness, but they shared a youthful literary ambition to write their way out of the shackles of midcentury female identity. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The most profound analog is the Billie Holiday song "Strange Fruit," and Plath alludes to the song when she writes, "The dark fruits revolve and fall." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Since her suicide at 48 in 1971, her personal story, like Sylvia Plath’s, has also slipped into the realm of myth. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Plath adds: "Never commit yourself hastily, I always say!" Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z These letters take the grand archetype of suicidal Plath, the elaborate, brittle mythologies that have sprung up around her, and give them an unforgettable human specificity. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The pictures were drawn during the happy early days of the couple’s life together, immediately following their June 1956 marriage; Plath drew many of them on their honeymoon in Paris and Benidorm, Spain. Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z Sylvia Plath wrote “Every woman adores a fascist” in 1962, but who knew it would ring halfway true half a century on? The pop-culture progress myth 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Ted Hughes and first wife Sylvia Plath in happier times. Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath: second thoughts 2010-10-15T15:01:00Z There were 65 of them in the catalog for the show, which is about 20 more than Sylvia Plath published in her lifetime. It’s time to bring James Franco's reign of half-assed artistry to an end 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z There were still echoes of the world Elizabeth Winder described in her recent book “Pain, Parties, Work,” about Plath’s experience in the city. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Plath saw the massive stone sarcophagus and its contents soon after it was excavated in the 1950s, when she was a student at Cambridge. Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display 2012-05-23T15:39:01Z Sylvia Plath leaves her home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on her way to New York City. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z In adapting the novel Ms. Stiles met with Plath’s friends and listened to recordings of her reading her own poetry. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z Based on a paranoid short story by Sylvia Plath, the 40-minute dance loosely follows the nervy receptionist of a mental health clinic, who works under the watchful eye of the God of Anxiety. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z She plans to display the watches at home in a vitrine, and eventually leave them to Smith College, Ms. Plath’s alma mater. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z When Plath wasn’t banging on about Hughes’s virility, “his health and hugeness,” she waxed ecstatic about the pleasures of “domesticalia” and of serving as Hughes’s amanuensis and literary agent. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z On her last night at the Barbizon, Plath tossed the clothes she’d so carefully selected for her Mademoiselle internship off the hotel rooftop. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z It will run in repertory with Edward Anthony’s whimsical “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath,” in which Esther Greenwood, the heroine of “The Bell Jar,” has a date with Olson the Magic Oven. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Plath earned a cult following through the novel "The Bell Jar," whose descriptions of a suicidal young woman foreshadowed her own death, which followed only a month after its publication in 1963. Poem by Ted Hughes details Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-06T21:11:00Z He took her to rooms in Rugby Street, in London, where he and Plath had celebrated their wedding night. On Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath 2010-10-11T12:24:00Z "A child," said Sylvia Plath, "forming itself finger by finger in the dark." Writing at night 2010-12-21T15:05:18Z As a scholar of 20th-century American poetry, I teach Plath regularly in my university classrooms and direct graduate theses about her works. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Plath died by suicide on Feb. 11, 1963, after having written the most important poems of her life during the six months before her death. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The ensuing altercation caused Plath to report in her journal that the fight left her with a strained thumb and Hughes with claw marks on his cheeks. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Four months after meeting, Plath and Hughes were married in a secret ceremony in London — Plath feared losing her Fulbright — attended only by Plath’s mother. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “Guilt, the train wheels clucked like round black birds, and guilt, and guilt, and guilt,” Plath writes. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Lord Bragg, a writer and broadcaster, told the Guardian he believes the poem belongs with the “Birthday Letters” sequence of poems addressed to Plath by Mr. Hughes. A Newly Discovered Ted Hughes Poem 2010-10-06T22:11:00Z I spent a month in bed with my pets, reading Sylvia Plath. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The printed text of “Three Women,” which Ms. Plath wrote shortly before she began work on the poems that form the wrenching collection “Ariel,” is hard to recognize as a play. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Most potent of all, Plath writes in an earlier draft of what can be understood only as her portrayal of Ted's reaction: "It might cause him a morning's anger." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z As Clark explains in "Red Comet," one day in early February 1961, Plath, who was four months pregnant, answered the phone at her home in Devon, England. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z I became obsessed with biographies of Sylvia Plath, and then Virginia Woolf, and then Evelyn Waugh. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z There is something feverish in this pursuit of perfection; Plath is obsessive, driven — ambitious, almost — toward domestic happiness. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In May 1958, when Plath was teaching at Smith, she saw Hughes strolling on campus with a student. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “I think for all of us, Plath is a model.” Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z Sylvia Plath’s mother has insisted that her daughter thought of the book as a “potboiler” and did not want it published in the United States. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The bookplate identifies Sylvia Plath as the owner of this copy, which she most likely read as an undergraduate at Smith College. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z In the poem, Plath connects her experience with the fears of a pregnant woman taking thalidomide. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The frank and emotionally intense poetry of Anne Sexton was enormously important to her; she introduced me to Sexton and Plath when I was barely a teenager. Before the Feminist Revolution, This ‘Messy Experiment’ Nurtured Female Talent 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Two slim volumes of Plath sat on my shelf when I first came to Britain. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Another previously unpublished recording sees Plath talking about how much she enjoys the eccentricities of the English. British Library archive throws light on Hughes-Plath romance 2010-04-15T10:56:00Z Maya circles her legacy-minded suitors, dropping references to Sylvia Plath and discussing the merits of rhyme schemes and suicide. Review: Lena Olin Is Fierce as a Suicidal Poet in ‘Maya Dardel’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Obviously, the other literary things I put in the book, especially Sylvia Plath. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z What I think of is the one moment in Plath's novel when she casts her fictional counterpart beyond the trajectory of the story's events. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Plath could not get on with her life. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Amy sleeps under a poster of Sylvia Plath, and, in an early scene, she rehearses her suicide by sticking her head in the oven before deciding it would be “suicidal plagiarism.” Movie Review: In ‘Adult World,’ a Naïf Dreams of Literary Glory 2014-02-13T23:21:16Z On the inside, Plath may have been a neurotic poet, but externally, she was a cultivated, poised Smithie, determined to rise professionally and to shine socially. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z "Plath is cursed by her biography," added PickledShrew, and laid down a challenge: "Maybe it is about time to find out why The Bell Jar earns its place among the modern American classics". Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z Finally, Hughes wanted to be free of Plath. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In 14 recently uncovered letters to the psychiatrist who’d treated her since her suicide attempt in college, we see Plath at her most vulnerable. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z So far she’s channeled her dissatisfaction by ticking boxes on the teenage-misfit checklist: a taste for Sylvia Plath; a love of the Velvet Underground; the wearing of a lot of black. In ‘Fiebre Tropical,’ a Colombian Teenager Moves to Miami and Comes of Age 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Plath was a diligent correspondent; you get the feeling she dispatched these letters before plunging into her real writing, as a way to loosen her fingers and warm up her pen. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Most ambitious of all, she’s become a producer, striving to adapt “The Bell Jar,” the autobiographical novel by the poet Sylvia Plath, into a feature film. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z The collection includes Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim, which Ted Hughes read to her. Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z "Life after Death", by Ted Hughes Hughes's poem recalls the immediate aftermath of Sylvia Plath's suicide. Ten of the best wolves in literature 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z She read Sylvia Plath and Flannery O’Connor and dreamed of becoming a writer. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Author Jessica Knoll Makes a Revelation 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “The Collected Schizophrenias” is, indisputably, an addition to the lineage that includes Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” Susanna Kaysen’s “Girl, Interrupted” and Kay Redfield Jamison’s “An Unquiet Mind,” to name just a few. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Not seriously, not like someone I had known at Smith who dressed in black and called herself Sivvy, Plath’s nickname. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z My quarantine brain sees them as scary blooms, the stuff of nightmares, like Sylvia Plath’s poppies: “little hell flames … a mouth just bloodied / Little bloody skirts!” Revisiting the Posy in Our Current Moment 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Scholars learned about these letters only in 2017 when they suddenly came up for auction, and a subsequent lawsuit eventually awarded them to Smith College, Plath's alma mater. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z She commended Sylvia Plath’s austere poetry, but characterized her suicide as an act of dramatic performance art. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The title of this piece, from 1999, explains, “Superman recites selections from ‘The Bell Jar’ and other works by Sylvia Plath.” Art Review: ‘Mike Kelley: 1954-2012’ at the Watermill Center 2012-08-16T19:48:14Z Drawing from a trove of interviews, correspondence and diaries, Ms. Winder shows how selectively Plath edited that period, winnowing the positive, accentuating the negative, leaving out her thirst for glamour and fashion. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z The pleated green tartan kilt Ms. Plath wore as a Smith College undergraduate, with blue-lettered name tape affixed to the waistband, swished home with A.N. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Merkin wonders whether “there is little to be added” about Plath, but then dispels this not only with her discussion of Clark’s ideas but also by providing those of her own. Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z One could certainly be forgiven for thinking that no remaining bit of Sylvia Plath scholarship could change one’s view of the much analyzed poet. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Her tombstone, which reads Sylvia Plath Hughes, was routinely defaced: Vandals chiseled off the name “Hughes.” Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Plath said he wants to make sure the proposed historic site would not disrupt the residential nature of the area. Future of author John Updike's Pa. house uncertain 2012-04-19T15:35:09Z The gas-and-suicide study is valuable in showing that the incidence of suicide can be reduced — but it does not shed new light on Plath. Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z And so, for research purposes, I read Plath again. Meg Wolitzer: "The Bell Jar," "Belzhar," and My Debt to Sylvia Plath 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Alvarez wrote that after Hughes left, Plath needed “someone to live with and take care of her.” A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Later British editions and those in America attributed Plath as the author. Rare Sylvia Plath proof goes up for auction 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z But Plath excoriates the women who conformed to the era's rules, as well; "girls like that make me sick," Esther repeats in a refrain that becomes increasingly pointed: her society is indeed making Esther sick. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z I must have brought in work by Sylvia Plath and mentioned her marriage to Ted Hughes. Jason Isbell’s “Running with Our Eyes Closed” and a marriage of two artists 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Two months after finishing her internship, Plath would creep into the crawl space under her mother’s house in Massachusetts and swallow a bottle of sleeping pills. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z However brief and fragile her moment of hope, however anguished those last months of her life, Plath recognised the timeless incandescence of her achievement. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z About 20 years ago, Martin Amis — the writer with the most pronounced daddy issues this side of Sylvia Plath — received a letter from an especially harrowing ex-girlfriend. Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But the years have passed more slowly, you suspect, for the family and the Plath estate. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Volume 1 ends with a decision by Plath to reveal her marriage so that Hughes could join her at Cambridge. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z He had his star, Mr. Lerman, read Plath, Whitman and Bertrand Russell, and the pair spent six months poring over the character. James Schamus, a Hollywood Honcho, Takes on Directing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z It draws on two Plath works: a poem, “Paralytic,” and a section from the novel “The Bell Jar.” Music Review: Kaija Saariaho?s ?Voix, Espace? at Zankel Hall 2012-03-07T00:06:13Z In “The Bell Jar,” the heroine modeled on Plath calls it “the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “It doesn’t fall to many men to murder a genius,” Hughes said to Plath’s friend Elizabeth Compton, adding on another occasion, “I feel like a murderer.” Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z She suggested that Plath's work had become a victim of commercial pressures. The Bell Jar's new cover derided for branding Sylvia Plath novel as chick lit 2013-02-01T12:14:28Z In often haunting detail, “The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2” documents the rise and fall of a literary marriage whose dissolution ended up destroying a genius. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The temptation is to feed this new information into the algorithm of what drove Plath to take her life. Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and the trouble with dramatising suicide 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Plath and I were alike, I was sure, yet what I retained from The Bell Jar was mostly a sense of the narrator's irrepressible effervescence. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z The New Statesman says it's publishing a previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes that details the night his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, killed herself. Poem by Ted Hughes details Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-06T21:11:00Z Plath’s birth that October was followed by the birth of her brother, Warren, three years later. Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z She thinks her younger sister, Christina, 23, is part of a new generation of women who are able to appreciate Plath not for her tragedy, but for her talent. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z These two plays offer a gauzy dose, and a gimmicky one, of Plath and her acrid, knowing voice. | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z First, this was Plath's foray into popular fiction. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Our recommended titles this week include books about blood, serial killers, witches and plague, along with a new Stephen King novel and the harrowing last letters of Sylvia Plath. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I’m certainly anxious to avoid putting actors into this thing where it’s, ‘Oh, it’s Sylvia Plath, we have to be very intense and gloomy the whole time.’ Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Until May 20, it can be seen at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington as part of the eclectic “One Life: Sylvia Plath” exhibit. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The prisoners' book choices are suggestive: Anne Frank was effectively coping with incarceration in her Amsterdam attic, and Plath is an obvious choice for those less than contented with their lot. Memoir reveals prisoners' book preferences 2010-10-27T13:57:00Z Plath and Roth got away with it, more or less, but it’s a tricky artistic model. A Heroine Checks In to the Psychiatric Ward, and Takes Notes 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Sylvia Plath, who was very concerned with herself, wrote incredibly boring diaries because they were trying to dramatise her life. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z As Plath's marriage dissolved – she and Hughes separated in September 1962 – she had no reason to protect Hughes any longer. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Especially poignant was Clark’s observation, emphasized by Merkin, that Plath’s last poems were filled with a mixture of both rage and control. Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In contrast, responses from all-female and co-educational schools more often presented extensive discussion of Plath's feminist identity, even when those responses were composed by male students. We can see the gender bias of all-boys’ schools by the books they study in English 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z I felt the same kinship with Plath reading her diaries from her early years at Cambridge, when she met Ted Hughes, which I encountered a few years later. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Plath was 30 when she died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1963. Movie Review: ?Black Butterflies,? a Biopic About the Poet Ingrid Jonker 2012-03-02T00:19:39Z In early November, Plath elected to move to London, not Ireland. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Plath’s prom dress is a novella about promise and defeat rendered in nylon net and silver lamé. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The novelist Diane Johnson was there at the same time as Plath. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z She was defiant and unapologetic, a grunge Sylvia Plath with — as any profile of her at the time would remind you — a nose ring and tattoo. I'm still a member of Prozac Nation: Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel and her life-changing book 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “The primary thing about Plath that’s important to me as a poet is the expertise, the formal technique in her work,” she said. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z That’s because Plath used Hughes’s “desertion,” as she called it, as source material for poems in “Ariel,” the posthumous collection that made her one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Plath's alter-ego Esther Greenwood emerges sturdily herself, remade and 'ready for the road.' Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z In the last case, Bishop had been startled to find that so talented a poet could write such “insipid” and “superficial” letters; Bishop had not had a mother to humor with chatty letters like Plath’s. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Plath reveals increasing emotional instability, occasionally lashing out at her husband. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Esther Greenwood also happens to be the main character in the second play, Elisabeth Gray’s whimsical and rather forced “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath.” | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z “The Bell Jar,” by Sylvia Plath; “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf, which is by far one of my favorite books. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Elm", the poem Plath dedicated to her friend and which opens: "I know the bottom, she says. Sylvia Plath gets all-star tribute for Ariel anniversary 2013-04-10T23:01:02Z Naturally such knowledge adds poignancy to the descriptions of Esther's suffering when she, like Plath, was just 19. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z In the back is a lending library stocked with Plutarch, Orwell and Plath. Hungry City: La Morada in the South Bronx 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A young Sylvia Plath lived there too, and in her semi-autobiographical novel, “The Bell Jar,” she fictionalized it as “The Amazon,” the hotel where her protagonist, Esther Greenwood, stays during a summer magazine internship. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Hughes feels sorrow, loss and regret over Plath’s suicide, although not, so far as I could tell, any high degree of guilt. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z A Web site he’d chanced on mentioned that Plath had written a radio play in verse, “Three Women,” which the had broadcast in August 1962, less than six months before her suicide. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Lady Lazarus may be rising, but as in the Sylvia Plath poem of that name, she’s eating men like air – or so they feel. “Mad Men”: Joan did the right thing 2012-05-29T22:12:00Z The fact that Plath suffered periods of extreme mental instability and was subjected to early and experimental forms of treatment doesn't enforce any particular reading. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z Clocking in at just under two hours combined, “Three Women” and “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath” could conceivably have been packaged as a single evening. | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z I had entered in part because I had a bit of a preoccupation with Plath. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Another episode, which Plath described in no uncertain terms, occurred in February 1961, when Hughes beat Plath so severely she suffered a miscarriage. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Plath was trying to make her way to the doctor’s words. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z On the first day, their teacher announces they will read "The Bell Jar" and other works by Sylvia Plath, surprising choices for those who are easily bruised. Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “You play him records I showed you/Read him Sylvia Plath/I thought that that was our thing,” she sings. Arlo Parks Wants Her Songs to ‘Feel Like Surround Sound Cinema’ 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z She writes that Daisy shows a “desire for a secure future” — a longing that seems to have struck a chord for Plath. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z During their marriage, Plath tended to play second fiddle to him. The 10 best power couples 2013-02-16T15:30:00Z The second volume of letters, meticulously edited, with a lively introduction and a great index, brings Plath’s entrepreneurial resourcefulness, her bared heart, and her prosecutorial intelligence into one book. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “I remember,” Plath wrote, “hurling a glass with all my force across a dark room; instead of shattering the glass rebounded and remained intact: I got hit and saw stars.” Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z There is no evidence Plath ever took thalidomide, a drug developed in 1954 prescribed to treat several symptoms including nausea and anxiety in pregnant women. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z I feel conscious of that “dark animal” Sylvia Plath talks about in her poem “the Elm.” Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z Or there's Sylvia Plath, who hints at post-natal depression in her poem Morning Song. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z While Merkin does not lead us to the solution of the mystery of suicide, she whets our appetite to hear not only more about Plath but also more of her own speculations and insights. Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z At the time of Plath’s death at age 30, critic A. Alvarez wrote, “The loss to literature is inestimable.” Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z In chapter 11 Plath writes "disenchantment – cruel irony of young illusion of sea" and in the author's note Plath has underlined Conrad's comment about "Thinking it over for something like sixteen years." Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z Plath writes of "snares," "Zeroes, shutting on nothing," and "wires." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Escoria survived, saddled with the shock of what Sylvia Plath deemed a “theatrical/ Comeback in broad day/ To the same place, the same face.” Review | A writer turns her suicide attempts and self-harm into lyrical prose with ‘Juliet the Maniac’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z He was also exposed to Auden, Lowell and Plath. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z Tristine Skyler, a New York playwright Ms. Stiles chose to write the screenplay, did extensive research into Plath’s journals, letters and other archives with the help of leading Plath scholars. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z There are long, idiosyncratic digressions in which he views his situation through various literary lenses – readings of Tintin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Macbeth and the poetry of Plath. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z Among the Plath items the college already holds are her Girl Scout uniform and prom dress, acquired in 1985 and available for the public to see by appointment. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z For a certain kind of arty girl, reading Plath was like reading the French existentialists. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Still, Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath come immediately to mind, albeit for the narrower category of great literature about awful relationships; no one wants a father like those in “King Lear” or “Daddy.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The book turned out to be a rare 1962 proof of Sylvia Plath’s famous — and only — novel, published under a pseudonym in 1963, shortly before the writer committed suicide at the age of 30. Rare Early Proof of 'The Bell Jar' to Be Auctioned 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z At the time he knew Plath, Alvarez himself nearly ended his life. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z But no scholarship has yet to contextualize the painful event as a means to reinterpret two of Plath's most autobiographical poems, "The Rabbit Catcher" and "Thalidomide." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “With each passing decade,” Clark concludes, “Sylvia Plath’s work seems more astonishing, and its achievements harder earned. . . . Let us not desert her.” Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Clark writes of the passage: “Plath’s colon suggests that she ‘got hit’ by the ricocheting glass, not by Hughes” — a conclusion contrary to the one many other readers have reached. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z She was even a guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine, just like Sylvia Plath. Tama Janowitz memoir 'Scream' is strangely lacking; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The era has passed in which those who held Ted Hughes responsible for Plath’s suicide would chisel her married name from her headstone. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But Lowell was Plath’s teacher and great influence; his 1959 volume “Life Studies” effectively introduced and popularized confessional poetry in this country. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z This unembarrassed idolatry wasn’t just for Aurelia’s benefit; Plath carried on much in the same way with her brother, their mutual friends, Ted’s parents. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z To Ms. Moss, those badges reveal something more than mere ambition — that Ms. Plath’s curiosity and embrace of learning were also bottomless. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Responses I collected from all-male schools showed they were inclined to marginalize Plath's womanhood, and favor Hughes's account of their violent marriage. We can see the gender bias of all-boys’ schools by the books they study in English 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Julia Davis puts a new twist on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. TV highlights 30/05/2013 2013-05-30T06:00:16Z “One Life” is the first exhibition on Plath in an art and history museum, according to the gallery. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Like Sylvia Plath, Woodman is an artist whose death has often impinged on the various readings of her work, imbuing these already complex images with another layer of mystery and, in some cases, foreboding. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z In college, Ms. Dunham wrote, Plath’s “rhythmic, angry” language “rang in my head as I walked to class.” Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z In London, he became friends with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and remained close through the collapse of their marriage and Plath’s suicide, in 1963. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles. The Bell Jar's new cover derided for branding Sylvia Plath novel as chick lit 2013-02-01T12:14:28Z More darkly, suicide has clouded both disciplines, though there doesn’t seem to be a Sylvia Plath of architects, lifted lamentably to greater renown by early self-destruction. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z In the last some months, I've visited the grave of Sylvia Plath, the grave of Anne Brontë, the resting place of the other Brontës, Trotsky's grave in Mexico City. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z I do not think of the echo chamber of disillusionment and despair behind Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt at 20 and the tragic finality of her successful attempt at 30. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z When Plath found a sheaf of erotic poems Hughes had written to Wevill, she registered the intense pain to her psychiatrist, but then she did something unexpected: She praised the poems for their proficiency. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z As a case study, the HSC English Advanced syllabus prescribes a comparative analysis of Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" and Ted Hughes's "Birthday Letters." We can see the gender bias of all-boys’ schools by the books they study in English 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z She planned on relocating to Ireland, where she could recover in peace far from Hughes, but her mother lobbied against it and surreptitiously encouraged Plath’s friends to dissuade her. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z A Maltese cross flanked by two dragons, the baroque design is completely unlike Ms. Plath’s other accessories, a mostly feminine assortment of rhinestones, hearts and flowers. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z While readers still return, now and then, to Robert Lowell and Theodore Roethke, Plath and Sexton, somehow poets themselves seem always to prefer Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop: a centenary to celebrate 2011-02-08T17:50:28Z Plath, then twenty, submitted “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” to Mademoiselle magazine. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z This eclectic bent was on full display in “Nightclub Cantata,” a revue produced at the Village Gate in 1977, based on texts by Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda and other poets. Elizabeth Swados, Creator of Socially Conscious Musicals, Is Dead at 64 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Heather Clark is the author of “Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I felt responsible for my students’ mood and didn’t want them leaving that classroom under a cloud of Sylvia Plath. The time the homeless wrote poetry 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The following months saw Plath descend into despair as she endured what she viewed as Hughes’s continued betrayal. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z I have gone out, a possessed witch / haunting the black air," Anne Sexton wrote, and Sylvia Plath imagined herself as a witch exulting when burnt at the stake: "My ankles brighten. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z The tale contains the seeds of the writer Plath would become. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Alvarez was originally closer to Hughes, but spent more time with Plath after the couple separated and eventually regarded her as the greater talent. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z On last week's Reading group post, Karina74 lamented that it's "next to impossible to read The Bell Jar without being flooded with biographical details about Sylvia Plath". Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z In the skirt, she saw not only Ms. Plath’s background, but also the struggle of an era. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z They confirmed the substance of what she said – in particular, that Plath had not wanted The Bell Jar to go out under her own name while her mother was still alive. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z After all, Ms. Plath was once a fan herself. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z If anything, most of these works are polite and as well brought up as Plath herself was well brought up.” Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z Not that Sylvia Plath needs the help, although her status as the archetypal Wronged Woman has managed both to canonize and to ghettoize her. | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z My second play was about a girl who gets obsessed with Sylvia Plath. With the Volt Festival, the Playwright Karen Hartman Comes Home 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It is this hopeful leap into the future that pierces me: the older Esther, a mother now, practical and resourceful – just as Plath was during the creation of The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z In the letters – which span the most volatile era of Plath's marriage, writing and eventual suicide – Plath opens up about topics she didn't discuss with anyone else. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Why wouldn't a woman as gifted as Plath become terminally depressed and end in suicide? Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z “I hope to free Plath,” she writes, “from the cultural baggage of the past 50 years and reposition her as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.” Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In a quiet room at Performance Space New York, Purnell talked about his relationship to Plath, dance and the eternal martyrdom of the artist. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The work, which Purnell describes as “an intense condensing of structure, sculpture and text,” features a soundscape of original music and spoken passages from Plath’s story. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z And it had an artistic tradition: Robert Lowell was there for a while; Ray Charles used to check in; James Taylor; Sylvia Plath had been there before my time. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z In the popular imagination, he is, above all, the cheating husband who drove his American wife, Sylvia Plath, to suicide. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Plath Heart is another song built on repetition, which evolves gradually. New band of the day ? No 933: Braids 2010-12-17T16:43:45Z Plath was especially thrilled by the “radio in the wall, telephone by the bed – and the view!” Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Plath’s next moves she carried out with the help of an attorney in London. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z One particularly vivid example that is far from ordinary is Sylvia Plath’s copy of “The Great Gatsby.” What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Plath's drafts also offer a window into her inspiration and creative process. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Almost six decades after her death, Sylvia Plath stands as the most consequential poet of her generation. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He plays a recording of Plath describing the party in the 1950s at which she met fellow poet Ted Hughes, with whom she would share a disastrous marriage. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Twelve years later, Plath would kill herself in her London flat on a winter morning, while her small children slept in the next room and her husband was off with another woman. Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Plath made these paper dolls and dress designs as a child. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z Plath wrote “L'Ennui” — a French word that describes a feeling of listlessness and boredom — next to a description of the character Daisy’s world-weary view of life: “I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z There is more Emily Dickinson in her than Sylvia Plath. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z The sense of them being made for each other, chaotically, destructively, put me in mind of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Winder has tried this before, in “Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953.” When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z We don’t hear Plath but “Sivvy,” offering weekly reports, mostly to her mother, Aurelia, whom she so depended on and despised. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z In Plath’s letters, a cherished put-down, in fact, is “smiler,” for a falsely appeasing woman. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Hughes was a private man who did not want to seem to be capitalizing on his relationship with Plath. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “My father is dead now,” Plath wrote as a teenager in a rare reference to him to a German pen pal, “so my mother teaches instead.” Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z While it’s impossible to forget how Plath lived and died, the question that today has fresh urgency is how she wrote. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z What is interesting for us now is that it does go part-way to solving the mystery of what happened on the weekend before Sylvia Plath died. On Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath 2010-10-11T12:24:00Z In 1951, Sylvia Plath signed off on a letter to her mother: “The only quiet woman is a dead one.” Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And you wouldn’t connect the, either, with the prose Plath, the psychotic bobbysoxer of The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z This was illustrated by the recent furore over the cover of a new edition of The Bell Jar, which illustrates Sylvia Plath's fictional study of depression with a woman re-touching her makeup. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z Ms. Plath’s Girl Scout uniform also speaks volumes. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z And Mrs. Plath herself felt that the book presented ungrateful caricatures of people who had tried to help her daughter. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z His first casting call received some 1,700 submissions, suggesting that even if Mr. Shaw has not, as he has admitted, read very much by or about Plath, many actors have. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z She dressed in all-black Agnés B. and doted on Ms. Hamilton and her brother, introducing them to writers like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg and plays like “The Glass Menagerie” and “Through a Glass Darkly.” Cinderella by Way of Cassavetes 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Once, he brought in an audio recording of Sylvia Plath reading her poetry and had the writing staff listen for about an hour, Ms. Chellas said. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z According to Bate, that lover was A. Alvarez, then the most influential poetry critic in England and a notable champion of Plath and Hughes. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Plath, who committed suicide soon after publishing “The Bell Jar,” continues to capture the public imagination. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z On that point, one central question has loomed since Plath’s death: What role did Hughes play, intentionally or not, in her death? Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z This is what Sylvia Plath was getting at, too, more concisely and with less ironic humour, when she wrote: "The blood jet is poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z Burgess, one of Washington’s most distinguished choreographers, is in the midst of creating this work in response to the exhibition “One Life: Sylvia Plath” at the National Portrait Gallery. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “L'Ennui” would become the title of a poem Plath is thought to have written shortly after reading this novel. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z What do we think of this episode, titled for a Plath poem, that has Pete specifically mentioning that his life insurance will pay for suicide? Mad Men Monday: Don and the elevator shaft 2012-05-07T17:28:05Z In Plath's handwritten drafts, which are available at Smith College, you can see that this image is the poem's original title. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The Second Shelf, a women’s bookshop in the West End, is the place to go to buy rare and current books, art and ephemera, such as Sylvia Plath’s plaid skirt. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z In seminars, my classmates would refer to Chekhov or Plath, and I’d check the syllabus to see if I’d missed an assignment. She Grew Up in a House Without Books. A Teacher Helped Her Realize She Could Write One Herself. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z In treating Plath as simply an object of sympathy, I suspect I have belittled her. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z Failure to know about such contingencies as the role Plath’s gas supply played in her death, Gladwell writes, “leads us to misunderstand some of our greatest poets.” Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The British Library is also releasing an audio CD of Plath recordings, including a rare recording of Plath and Hughes talking about their relationship. British Library archive throws light on Hughes-Plath romance 2010-04-15T10:56:00Z His installation, which reads as a stop-motion blur of activity, brings to mind Sylvia Plath’s line from “Elm”: “a wind of such violence will tolerate no bystanding.” What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Plath wears the pendant in several well-known photographs taken after she was married, including two by Rollie McKenna at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in which she appears both knowing and impossibly young. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Sylvia Plath, in her own spin on Picasso's mantra, said that "the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Now showing: 'Suffering for their art' films like 'Birdman' and 'Whiplash' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In late 1961, the couple bought Court Green, a sprawling thatched-roof house on a small estate in Devon, and settled in just in time for Plath to give birth to Nicholas in January 1962. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Readers will have to wait a year for the letters that chronicle their marriage — one of the most discussed in literary history — the dissolution of which contributed to Plath’s suicide in 1963. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Alvarez argued that Plath’s attempt was a gamble, “‘a cry for help’ which fatally misfired,” and he did so without drawing on any information about the British gas industry. Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "The Rabbit Catcher" – which was originally titled "Snares" – immediately precedes "Thalidomide" in Plath's version of "Ariel." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Hughes, a Briton, and Plath, an American, are considered among the 20th century's greatest poets. Poem by Ted Hughes details Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-06T21:11:00Z Sylvia Plath’s technique of defamiliarization ranges from tiny verbal witticisms that bite, to images that are deeply troubling. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z More an oral poem than a play, it may be the most harrowing literary record of suicidal depression since Sylvia Plath's poetry collection "Ariel." To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z If only Plath could have held on to that optimism. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z Being born the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is to be thrust into that role. Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z Ted Hughes taught Sylvia Plath to read horoscopes. ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z “Volume 1,” published last year, covered Plath’s youth and education, concluding with her four-month courtship with Hughes, whom she met at Cambridge University in February 1956. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Soon they’ve both busted up laughing and snorting, and everyone else starts giggling, even Burgess, because they all need a break from Plath. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Other notes are, in the context of Plath’s painful life and tragic suicide, haunting. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z This moving account of his seven years with Plath, an American poet who was a flawed figure with a history of mental illness, evoked sympathy and some degree of closure. Prince of poetry 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In 2000, a plaque was mounted outside a lavender-painted house in northwest London, commemorating the time when Sylvia Plath had lived and worked there. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Lines that Plath wrote in her journals — “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end” — could have been Arbus’s. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z She wondered “if Plath would have been saved had she been born in a different time: in a time when psycho-pharmacologists are no more shameful to visit than hairdressers.” Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z She returned to London definitively in 1963, a week after the suicide of Sylvia Plath. Poetry review: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z The exception is Sylvia Plath, who, with her perfect blond pageboy, wide smile and cinched-waist dresses, looked less like a proper poet and more like Doris Day. Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z For that reason alone, the tendency to read The Bell Jar as if it were the unmediated biography of Plath's personal life seems to me to diminish its significance. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z There’s many more: a Sylvia Plath scent, Poe’s Leonore, cologne inspired by Kerouac, and his and hers “Literary Lovers” perfumes called Catherine and Heathcliff. Radiant children, the future of football and eau de literary hero 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z As Sylvia Plath famously wrote in 1962, “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The precocious Plath was singled out for star treatment by the editors, who recognized her brilliance but did not suspect her dark side. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z I think we read letter collections in large part for the pleasure of seeing other, humanizing sides of our literary heroes: Henry James’s catty gossip; Sylvia Plath’s sewing projects; James Joyce’s raunchiness. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In particular, these letters vastly enrich our understanding of Plath’s state of mind leading up to her suicide, which has been patchy and sparse, in part because of Hughes’s decision to destroy her final journal. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z What has been missing from the biographical record of the final months is Plath’s own voice. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “The Bell Jar” is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath’s 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “I began to frequent the offices and couches of the local psychiatrists,” Plath wrote to her friend Edward Cohen. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z When I was pregnant, I recalled with exaltation the Sylvia Plath poem I'd studied in a vague, doodling, grudging way at school – "O high riser, my little loaf". How strong emotion summons poetry 2013-01-16T13:14:16Z I was totally a good girl, but inside there was churning — Sylvia Plath churning. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z Rich’s contemporary Sylvia Plath viewed Rich as a primary rival; Rich’s name comes up in tight-lipped passages in Plath’s journals, as, for instance, a poet “who will soon be eclipsed.” Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Sylvia Plath is one of those others, and to them our gratitude and our dismay are equally impertinent. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Red Comet” thoroughly chronicles all stages of Plath’s life. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “To the readers of her poetry and her biography, Sylvia Plath will always be young and in a rage” over the unfaithfulness of her husband Ted Hughes. A Newly Published Story for the New Way We Read Sylvia Plath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Plath isn't the only figure whose real achievement has been obscured or distorted by the non-literary agendas of commentators after the fact. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z I was a bit afraid of Plath – her genius, and her suffering. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Enumerating his Christmas wish list, he fired off, “I want Mama Cass’s sandwich receipt and Sylvia Plath’s gas and electric bill.” | John Waters Has Lumps of Coal for All This Christmas 2013-12-16T23:07:35Z Hughes, an English poet laureate, and Plath, his American wife, are considered among the 20th century's greatest poets. Poem by Ted Hughes tells of Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-07T18:32:00Z He gives her Sylvia Plath and his underlined, annotated copy of “Lolita.” Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Soon she is tackling Proust, discussing Jean Genet with the president of France and delving into biographies of Sylvia Plath. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z I located the diamantine intensities in so many of her poems, which are as vital and influential in their way as Sylvia Plath’s or Elizabeth Bishop’s. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z By then I was mature enough to muse over how Plath's self-dramatising highs and lows could have devolved into pure horror, but I never found the clear link between her exuberance and what followed. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z The “stifling proximity” is her partial explanation for why the marriage so famously imploded — Hughes went off with another woman and Plath, left to fend for two small children, killed herself. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Some, like those who reviewed Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook” and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” just didn’t get it! James Baldwin’s Review, Babe Ruth and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z No one can seem quite so alive on the page as Plath — “I have become a verb, instead of an adjective,” she sang, with months left to live. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Plath herself was four months through the nine-month term when she had her miscarriage. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Plath’s poem “Stings” is a fitting epigraph for the project: “They thought death was worth it, but I / Have a self to recover, a queen.” 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z I had this teacher who gave me books, and they didn’t know what to give this little gay boy, you know, so they just gave me Sylvia Plath. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Death tugged at Sylvia Plath while she lived, and since her death, in 1963, life hasn’t left her alone. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z A rare proof of Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar" is coming up for auction in England. Rare Sylvia Plath proof goes up for auction 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z All these years later and Ivanka has finally grokked the fifth-form passion she was supposed to feel for Plath’s clipped elocution and intimate flair for the personal apocalypse, and she doesn’t want any distractions. Ivanka Trump goes to Washington (and all she got was dumped by Nordstrom) 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z One girlfriend follows another until the night at a Cambridge party when he glimpses the seductive and experienced Plath. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z She read Sylvia Plath and put a poster of the poet on her wall; he devoured Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The decline into madness is fast and cruel: the volume prints, for the first time, Plath’s distressingly frank letters to her friend and psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Beuscher. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z She attended Cambridge a year ahead of Sylvia Plath and she spent many years in swinging, sexist London as the editor of well-regarded book review sections. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Through her high school and college years, Plath had enjoyed romances with a variety of young men, but this time it was different. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z Plath apparently wanted to view these letters as therapeutic “sessions” and offered to pay Beuscher to read and respond to them, but the psychiatrist refused payment and wrote back to her anyway. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z By then, as her fans know, Plath was dead. Rare Sylvia Plath proof goes up for auction 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Her other books, most of them edited by her second husband, Gardner Botsford, included “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes” and “Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession.” Janet Malcolm, provocative author-journalist, dies at 86 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The Plath of these letters is engaged in a painful struggle to make her marriage work, and, later, to finding her way to managing on her own. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z With these drawings, we get a third Sylvia Plath.” Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z During their first year of marriage, Plath often wrote to her mother about Hughes: “I really am convinced he is the only person in the world I could ever love.” Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Its advice to take up the hyggelig activity of cycling is accompanied by a motivational quote from that byword of existential contentment, Sylvia Plath. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Gladwell thinks this historical context ought to affect our view of the poet Sylvia Plath, who was unfortunate enough to have town gas in her London home, and killed herself with it in 1963. Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z From William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski to Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, renowned writers of the twentieth century made paintings, drawings, and collages. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z For the remainder of his life, Hughes would be hounded by those who felt he mistreated Plath in both life and afterlife. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In 1953, Sylvia Plath was one of 20 talented, driven young women who won guest editorships at Mademoiselle magazine and were put up at the ladylike Barbizon hotel. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart,” Sylvia Plath wrote in “The Bell Jar,” her fictionalized account of her own breakdown and suicide attempt. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Secretly throughout the years, he also works on verse-memories of Plath, publishing them shortly before his death as “Birthday Letters.” ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z For years after Plath’s death, Hughes told friends that he and Plath were on the verge of reconciliation when she died. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Queasy glamour … Faber's 50th anniversary edition of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar It may have first come out 50 years ago, but The Bell Jar still causes controversy. Don't judge The Bell Jar by its cover 2013-02-01T14:19:46Z Savage solitude was exactly what I was looking for, especially if it would help me write poetry like Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton. We’re not meant to do this alone: American individualism is destroying our families 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z After that hotel room reading in 2006, he spent more than two years in negotiations with Faber and Faber, Plath’s publishers, to gain the theatrical rights. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z The “long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain” that Plath’s thinly veiled protagonist, Esther Greenwood, anticipated so memorably in “The Bell Jar” is too meandering here. | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z With permission, I pulled a first edition of Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” from a bookcase in the master bedroom and found Cheever’s return-mailing label pasted on the front page. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Photograph: Corbis Elizabeth Sigmund was a friend of Sylvia Plath's and, along with her husband David, a dedicatee of The Bell Jar when Plath first published it under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z This is Sylvia Plath at her most unbearably light.” Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z When Hughes found Plath in this rage, he began striking her repeatedly. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z This Plath is radiant with anxiety and ambition. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Plath said he hoped the house would be restored in time for the society’s third biennial conference, in 2014, and he expects the eventual number of visitors to be about 20 per week. ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z Her book draws on all of Plath’s surviving letters and incorporates part of an unfinished novel, “Falcon Yard.” 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z In her lifetime, Plath was little known beyond fellow poets. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This vast new biography sets out to recover Plath from her melodramatic legacy. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “I am the girl that Things Happen To,” Plath wrote, to her mother, as a college student. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s true that nothing lasts, and I didn’t need to win a magazine contest to understand this; I surely knew it before that summer, helped along by Plath. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Addressing his relationship with Sylvia Plath was something he had to do, as an artist. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z This macabre end has overshadowed Plath’s legacy until now, but in March, the poet Sandra Beasley convened a panel of poets in Boston to argue for a new understanding of Plath. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z Even I draw the line at playing Sylvia Plath with a 2-year-old, but it was her idea to put some of her favorite stuffed animals in the oven. Modern Love: A Role He Was Born to Play 2012-11-15T21:08:15Z In a letter to Alvarez, Hughes dismissed the critic’s contention that his revelations would end speculation about Plath’s death and anticipated — correctly — a “whole new world of hypothesis.” A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Safiya Sinclair was raised by strict adherents in Jamaica, only to chafe at its patriarchal dictates and find escape through poetry — first Sylvia Plath’s and then her own. 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Hers are the films they’ll watch over and over in their rooms — rites of passage, as important as any Joan Didion essay or Sylvia Plath poem, that have transcended generations. Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Writers whose books are missing include Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath, a BBC Wales Freedom of Information request has revealed. National Library of Wales is missing almost 1,200 items 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Her favorite poems — Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” was a big one — offered an escape hatch. Why Safiya Sinclair cut her dreads and wrote a memoir of pain and poetry 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z As we were talking about Plath’s influence, Etter’s dog started to bark in the background. How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z There’s a chapter on Plath and Solanas, and how their biographies cannot be separated from their work. Our monsters, ourselves: Claire Dederer explains her sympathy for the canceled 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Dederer did not abandon her children by killing herself like the poet Sylvia Plath, but she felt guilty enough when she spent five weeks away from her family at an artists’ colony. Review | Turns out, your favorite artist is a creep or a criminal. Now what? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z But with Sylvia Plath, there’s something about her story that is so interwoven in her work. Seattle author Claire Dederer asks: Can we love art made by ‘monsters’? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The conductor’s cerebral pursuits, complicated interior life and international dangerous liaisons will be relatable to precisely no one, unless you’re Sylvia Plath or maybe Virginia Woolf. Opinion: Oscar's 2023 polarized picks — moody and cloudy vs. box office flamboyance 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z With a university degree in English and a passion for poetry — he treasures Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath — he became an elementary-school teacher in the late 1970s. The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Penguin has worked with celebrated authors including Sylvia Plath, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Penguin Random House boss resigns after Simon & Schuster deal fails 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z In a holiday season column in 2021, Mr., Gerson quoted lines from a Sylvia Plath poem and examined his fight with cancer to arrive at a single uplifting thought: “Hope wins.” Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In a contemporary version of the shot, the sign instead reads, “From Stone to Cloud,” referencing a Sylvia Plath poem about having a child. Mary Kelly’s Revolution Is Ongoing 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z A few years ago, Burgess was planning an open rehearsal in response to the exhibition “One Life: Sylvia Plath” and had picked out one of the galleries. For dancers performing in museums, first rule is: Don’t bump into art 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z I walked over to my bookshelf and picked up that same copy of “Seduction and Betrayal” and turned to her essay on Plath. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z They became good pals, but Michaels said Miller’s rarefied references to Sylvia Plath and Cristo tested him. Can Al Michaels make streaming the NFL on Amazon Prime Video a Thursday night ritual? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Chaucer blasts into the novel on a bender and a dwindling book tour, arguing cluelessly against widespread comparisons between himself and Sylvia Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes. Review | ‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z A self-portrait, suggestively fractured in two, by Sylvia Plath. Review | All-star show at National Gallery of Art doubles down on identity 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The bird sitting on a branch and offering inspiration in “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” by Sylvia Plath comes to mind. Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z This is what Hardwick learns from Plath, even as she hones her peerless skill in criticism. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z He recommended a Sylvia Plath excerpt that concludes, perhaps unexpectedly, given the poet’s reputation, “This is what it is to be happy.” Seattle’s past and present collide on the Market to MOHAI walking route 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Divided into nine sections, or “stanzas,” the novel consists of three storylines featuring three women connected to Plath. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The strikethroughs and marginalia of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts can deliver multiple monologues, showing us all that the finished poem leaves unsaid. Perspective | In the extraordinary scores of George Crumb, the mind of a composer and the hand of a poet 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Author couples are notoriously combustible, whether the drunken brawl of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett or the infidelity and suicidal demons of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Beneath the blazing tail of Heather Clark’s biography, “Red Comet,” sailed this fascinating book about Plath and her contemporary Anne Sexton. The 5 best books of 2021 according to Jessica Ferri 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Growing up on their parents' farm in Georgia, the Plath children were arguably more restricted than most traditional American households. 'Welcome to Plathville' stars Micah and Moriah reveal 'everything' has changed since moving away from parents 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The fictional Rhodes is clearly based on Anne Sexton, whose real-life friendship with Plath was chronicled over the years by Sexton and others. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Plath, whose haunting poems turned the demons of her trauma into some of the most unsettling verses of modern English, killed herself in 1963 aged 30 by putting her head in a gas oven. Sylvia Plath’s love letters to Ted Hughes up for sale 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z There were two narrative workshops she toured most scrupulously: the ones that created the trope of the long-suffering poet Sylvia Plath and the one that created Long Beach doctor Jeffrey MacDonald. Appreciation: Journalist Janet Malcolm's work was a marvel, both chilling and provocative 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z One of her favorite poets is a famed confessionalist, Sylvia Plath. Annapolis picks creative writing teacher as poet laureate 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The Plaths did not own a television, and the children's computer and telephone usage was limited. 'Welcome to Plathville' stars Micah and Moriah reveal 'everything' has changed since moving away from parents 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Following her breakdown in 1953, Plath enters McLean, where Barnhouse, the only female psychiatrist on staff, nurses her back to health; while there, Plath meets Lowell, a “mad poet” regularly in residence at the hospital. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The sale also includes a deck of Tarot cards given to Plath by Hughes for her birthday and a striking ink portrait drawn by Plath during the couple’s honeymoon in Benidorm. Sylvia Plath’s love letters to Ted Hughes up for sale 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z While playing with and even inventing forms, Chang, chair of Antioch’s creative writing program, also makes overt references to other poets: Sylvia Plath, Brian Teare and Virginia Woolf. How grief became path-breaking poetry in Victoria Chang's 'Obit' 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Ten years after her stay at the Barbizon and weeks after she published “The Bell Jar” in 1963, Plath stuck her head in the oven. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z To follow Moriah and Micah's journeys to self-discovery and the rest of the Plath family's tension and turbulence, tune in to the Season 3 premiere of "Welcome to Plathville" on Tuesday, Aug. 17 on TLC. 'Welcome to Plathville' stars Micah and Moriah reveal 'everything' has changed since moving away from parents 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Five years later, Plath, now married to Hughes, takes a class with Lowell where she meets Rhodes, who believes that “Sylvia was a success in all the ways I was not.” Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Plath and Hughes married in 1956 and their relationship was as tumultuous as it was passionate. Sylvia Plath’s love letters to Ted Hughes up for sale 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Two writers you cite are Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath; they both committed suicide. How grief became path-breaking poetry in Victoria Chang's 'Obit' 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Plath wrote of her experience in “The Bell Jar,” her only novel. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Nominees in biography include books on Andy Warhol, Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath and others. Isabel Wilkerson, Jacob Soboroff, Akwaeke Emezi among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z But jealousy consumes Rhodes, who, out of spite, surreptitiously photographs Hughes with another woman at a library and then, years later, anonymously mails the picture to Plath. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Struck by the power of Plath's descriptive imagery, Parks began to explore those qualities in her own writing. Arlo Parks: 'In times of chaos, I've always reached for music' 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Is she hallucinating or making things up, as teasingly suggested by the Sylvia Plath poem quoted at the outset? Review: Hungary's 'Preparations to Be Together … ' brilliantly turns noir inside out 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z For more than half a century, single young women across the country shared 20-year-old Plath’s “woosh.” Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Heather Clark fuses new discoveries and eye-opening analysis in an inspiring biography, “Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.” Review: Celia Paul is finally her own muse in the dazzling memoir ‘Self-Portrait’ 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Seeing the incriminating picture, Rhodes decides, was the last straw for Plath, who reacted by killing herself. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Unlike many teenagers who find themselves inspired, Parks never tried to emulate the writers she admired - Zadie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Allen Ginsberg and Plath herself. Arlo Parks: 'In times of chaos, I've always reached for music' 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Other rules that are enforced at the Plath household include no social media, supervised Internet access, modest clothing and no rock music in the house. 'Welcome to Plathville' stars open up about having no contact with the family going into Season 2 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Shortly after she returned to Wellesley, Plath did just that; it was her first suicide attempt. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Though Hughes did help Plath with brainstorming and childcare in a way that was unusual for the time, he did not promote her work for publication. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In the realm of fiction, Kate Moses based her splendid novel “Wintering” on the end of Plath’s life, after her storybook marriage to poet Ted Hughes fell apart because of his infidelity. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In talking to her, I keep thinking of something Janet Malcolm wrote in her 1994 book on Sylvia Plath, “The Silent Woman”: “Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.” The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z ‘It is easy to blame the dark,” Sylvia Plath writes in Witch Burning. Top 10 books about witch-hunts | Eleanor Porter 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The Barbizon becomes the fictional Amazon hotel, and Plath is Esther Greenwood, the narrator. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Any reader of “The Bell Jar” is aware of the horrors of electroconvulsive therapy, but the revelation that Plath received four ECT treatments without anesthesia before her 1953 suicide attempt is devastating. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Part truth, part fiction, the novel is an ingenious addition to an ever-growing body of work about Plath that has helped make her an American literary icon. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was published just eight days after Sylvia Plath’s suicide in 1963. Review: Where Anne Sexton and other women found a fellowship of their own 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Fantasizing about romance, escape and literary greatness, she worships at the altar of Sylvia Plath, Jo March and the Bronte sisters, whose pictures — along with other heroes and sheroes — adorn her crammed bedroom wall. Review | ‘How to Build a Girl’ is the teenage girl’s answer to ‘Almost Famous’ 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z And yet despite her education, her gifts, her ambition, Plath saw what was ahead. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The two struck up a friendship after Plath was discharged in January 1954 — a relationship well outside the bounds of what would be considered appropriate between a patient and therapist. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Two hundred people did not show up at Plath’s funeral; it was a modestly attended service at Hughes’s family church. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Many artists, not just painters and photographers, leave a final selfie as a sort of last will and testament: Sylvia Plath published her autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar” shortly before ending her own life. Opinion | The Nude Selfie Is Now High Art 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z She graduated from Smith College in 1955; Sylvia Plath was a classmate. Iris Love, Stylish Archaeologist and Dog Breeder, Dies at 86 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z No women get more notice from Bren than the fiercely competitive college girls invited to be guest editors each June at Mademoiselle — and none so much as Plath. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Clark’s inclusion of Assia’s fate in a biography of Plath shows how inextricable Hughes — and his mistreatment of women — are from the Plath mythos. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In the end, though, “Last Confessions” captures larger truths, such as the place Plath has come to occupy in the literary canon. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It reminded me of a poem by Sylvia Plath: “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead / I lift my lids and all is born again.” Death Stranding and Zelda offer the clarity of hiking without the exhaustion 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He draws from an impressive range of sources, such as poets William Butler Yeats and Sylvia Plath. From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The future must have crystallized for Plath that summer at the Barbizon, as she wrote in “The Bell Jar”: “I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.” Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z This is where Clark’s monolithic chronicle not only excels but justifies the project: in its illumination of the development of Plath’s craft. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z As such, Plath is beyond ownership, which is the novel’s ultimate argument. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z McDonald grew up in Rathgar, a middle-class suburb of Dublin, and attended a Catholic school, Notre Dame des Missions, before studying Sylvia Plath and metaphysical poets at Trinity, formerly a Protestant bastion. Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin leader who may play Dublin kingmaker 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z A book review in The New York Times famously described her as “Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna”, a line she delighted in and used as her Twitter bio. Race, literature, lovers ... and fake breasts: my chats with Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Plath “keenly felt the contradictions of the 1950s,” Bren writes. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z When her father was dying, Plath’s mother kept the children downstairs to let him rest undisturbed. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Other critics were far less positive, including in the Times, where a Book Review contributor described Ms. Wurtzel as “Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna.” Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Sylvia Plath’s simplest line may be one of her most devastating: “I am only thirty.” Tommy Pico Filibusters Mortality with Poetry 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The agonising loneliness and mental illness described by its narrator Esther Greenwood connect to Plath’s own life, as described in her journals and letters. Top 10 books about loneliness | Fay Bound Alberti 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Welcome to Plathville The nine children of the Plath family, who have never had a soda, don’t know pop-culture icons and have never watched TV, are the focus of this new unscripted series. What's on TV Tuesday: 'Mayans M.C.' on FX 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Plath’s father died a week after her eighth birthday. Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The anthology’s second edition included two more Americans: Anne Sexton and Plath. Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z He would go on to write novels and poems and a best-seller on suicide that included a long chapter about Plath and an account on his own attempt to kill himself. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z With case studies that include Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria and Thomas Turner, it explores the emergence of loneliness as a modern, physical and psychological affliction. Top 10 books about loneliness | Fay Bound Alberti 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z He even employs the same research to insist that the poet, Sylvia Plath, might not have killed herself had she not been living in a house with a gas cooker. Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z But Plath changed it to a maternal distraction — “The child’s cry / Melts in the wall.” Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z |
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