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Plath’s sublime nature poetry deserves widespread appreciation for its unfettered joy and deep attunement to the natural world.
February 11 marks 60 years since Sylvia Plath’s death. Plath remains one of the great poets of depression, but also wrote on motherhood.
Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child.
The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
Since 2011, Button Poetry has offered a large number of powerful poetic performances that reveal the plurality of individual stories in the United States.
For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was no different.
If Swift’s new single is anything to go by, the poet and the former ‘pop princess’ have an awful lot in common.
The poet’s letters to her former therapist will be published later this year. How far is this an invasion of her privacy?
The story of Trevor Thomas.
After Jonathan Bate, in his recent biography of Ted Hughes, wrote about Hughes’ salacious sex life, a number of critics – including Janet Malcolm – were quick to pounce.
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
At the opening night of her private view and book launch, poet and artist Frieda Hughes appeared at the door of the Belgravia Gallery in Mayfair, a small but striking figure in a pillarbox-red suit. In…
Last week, Penguin released a 50th-anniversary edition of Roald Dahl’s classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – to an astonishingly negative reception. Die-hard Dahl fans on Twitter were scathing…
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia
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Final year PhD student researching Sylvia Plath's nature poetry, University of Huddersfield
