Plath

American

[plath] / plæθ /

noun

Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.

Plath British

/ plæθ /

noun

Sylvia. 1932–63, US poet living in England. She wrote two volumes of verse, The Colossus (1960) and Ariel (1965), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963): she was married to Ted Hughes

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One of the most popular is called “Pursuing the Good Life”; this semester, readings included the Bible, Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, along with poetry by Sylvia Plath and music by Beethoven.

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Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.

From Los Angeles Times

Plath and Swift, Nelson argues, have been judged by “the same script that has greeted female profusion, personalism, and ambition literally for millennia.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Will There Ever Be Another You” is a portrait of one woman’s crisis, not unlike Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” but without her clarity and acerbic confidence.

From Los Angeles Times

Clark, whose brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” was a Pulitzer finalist, uses her first novel to explore a highly literary and highly troubled relationship.

From Los Angeles Times

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