From the beginning, many of Plath's fans blamed Hughes. And for years he responded with silence. Today, a British magazine is publishing a poem by Hughes never seen before. It's called "Last Letter." ...

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired what it describes as a collection of works related to American poet Sylvia Plath that have been "largely inaccessible to the ...

Art is the greatest form of human expression. This form of expression has been essential in vocalizing pain as a common human experience. Confessional poetry perfectly embodies this. It focuses on ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious, and ...

Portraying the breakdown of the couple’s marriage through the eyes of the people around them, this deeply researched and utterly convincing debut is an astonishing achievement ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and motherhood as a ...

Not only poems, but poets die miserably every day for lack of what is found in each other’s work. Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize, and Sylvia Plath taught at the same time ...