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

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

RICHMOND, Oct. 30 -- An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" will appear Wednesday in a Virginia online ...

Written on a carbon paper, hidden for the last half century at the back of an old notebook, are two previously unknown Sylvia Plath poems — and they've just been discovered at last. Academics Gail ...

nepalnepal — The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time ...

London? A previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes that details the painful moments surrounding the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath is being published by The New Statesman today, the magazine said.

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

Two dead writers got new life this week when researchers revealed lost works by American authors Sylvia Plath and Edith Wharton. Academics working on a new book about “The Bell Jar” author found a ...

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

Poet Sylvia Plath was born on this day in 1932. Had she not committed suicide in 1963, she would have been 80 years old today. Although she was just 30 years old when she died, Plath’s poetry has had ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, ...

The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time Thursday show. The ...