Slyvia Plath

Written by Ashley – Flagler College When you think of a fashion icon from the past, who is the first person that comes to mind? Marilyn Monroe? Audrey Hepburn? Edie Sedgwick, perhaps? While all three of those women have enviable styles that we absolutely love, there are  so  many other fashionable women that have graced the history pages. This biweekly column focuses on just that:  unexpected and out-of-the-box fashion icons  from the past. We feature women who have not only made an impact...Read Full Story

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (54) 18 used & new from $2.71 (Visit the Best Sellers in Poetry & Short Stories list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American...Read Full Story

Al Alvarez at the Humber Mouth Festival Guest post by Chris Beardsley Who is Al Alvarez? That’s a good question. Although Al has been a published writer for over 60 years, he is still hard to categorise and even harder to pin down.  He has been, at varying times of his life (and sometimes all at the same time) an academic, newspaper poetry critic, novelist, rock-climber, open-water swimmer and poker player.  And he has written about all of it, thoughtfully and in great detail...Read Full Story

The Bell Jar A collection of Sylvia Plath’s ink and pen drawings are being shown for the first time ever, at the Mayor Gallery in London . The famous author of The Bell Jar , Plath took her own life in 1963 when she was just 30 years old – she would have turned 79 last Thursday. Many of the drawings are playful and amusing – a favorite pair of patent leather shoes, scenes from the Tuilerie gardens in Paris, a curious French cat. This is a marked contrast to the ominous tone that was ever...Read Full Story

Which Sylvia plath poems show that her depression influenced her poems ? daddy is one of themThe poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ is about her suicide attempts, which clearly demonstrates her battle with depression: “I have done it again.One year in every ten/ I manage it”. The life events which led to the writing of the poem were an apparent near death experience (“”The first time it happened I was ten/ It was an accident.”) and then her later suicide attempt. Suicide/depression themes are also...Read Full Story

Gallery: Sylvia Plath’s Never-Before-Exhibited Drawings1:30 pm Wednesday Oct 26, 2011 by Marina Galperina Tomorrow would have been Sylvia Plath’s 79th birthday, had she not committed suicide at age 30. Although the literary legend is best known for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar and the posthumously published collection of poetry Ariel , as her daughter Freida Hughes explains , “her passion for art permeated her short life.” After abandoning her vibrant, complex paintings...Read Full Story

  A page of Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter'. Source: The New Statesman   A few months ago I studied poetics and became fascinated with the tragic lives of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (I even wrote a post about it ).  Yesterday, a friend and former classmate brought my attention to ‘Last Letters’, a newly discovered poem by Ted Hughes that was not published in Birthday Letters .  The most amazing thing about the poem is that it was about the night Plath killed herself.  When I read it it sent...Read Full Story

Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 01, Chapter 2) Download: $5.95 (Visit the Best Sellers in By Publisher list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Find the best price Click HereRead Full Story

The Bell Jar [Paperback] By Sylvia Plath Product Description A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to...Read Full Story

In a final coda to one of literature's great doomed romances, a previously unseen poem by Ted Hughes was published Thursday in which he describes the dark last days leading up to Sylvia Plath 's suicide. "Last Letter" was unearthed in an archive of papers in the British Library belonging to Hughes, the late English poet laureate, and has been printed for the first time by New Statesman magazine. Hughes sheds new light on the three days in February 1963 that ended with his American wife...Read Full Story