Amerikan edebiyatının, sıra dışı karanlık şiirleriyle olduğu kadar trajik intiharıyla da bilinen ünlü şairi Sylvia Plath, 1963’te henüz 30 yaşındayken, intiharı seçer. Kendisi gibi şair olan Ted ...
Yahoo: Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography
Sylvia Plath long ago reached, even overshot, iconic status. From the moment of her death in 1963, her life and work have been transcribed onto many narratives, including but not limited to ambition, ...
The Washington Post: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ is an indictment of Ted Hughes
Heather Clark’s massive, ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more than six ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette: Sylvia Plath at 90: Smith College forum examines famous poet in wake of new biography
A 1954 portrait of Sylvia Plath after she dyed her hair dark brown to accentuate her “serious, intellectual side.” Credit: PHOTO BY Warren Kay Vantine/courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith ...
Sylvia Plath at 90: Smith College forum examines famous poet in wake of new biography
For the many feminist critics who have excoriated Ted Hughes’ treatment of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, there was poetic justice of a sort in the auction of the poets’ belongings by their daughter, ...
Santa Barbara Independent: Review | ‘The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes’ by Janet Malcolm
Review | ‘The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes’ by Janet Malcolm
Los Angeles Times: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...