But she would be thrilled to know that Oxford is hosting a 75th anniversary symposium in her honor this year. In Plath’s manuscript of Ariel and Other Poems, she overcame a failed marriage and ...

The Mortimer Rare Book Room is the repository for a large collection of Plath material--drafts of the Ariel poems, some journals, letters, artwork, photographs and realia, including Plath's typewriter ...

In their mythology—the one that has taken hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst of poetic productivity, the poems collected in Ariel (1965), drove her fully to ...

In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her collection, Ariel, Plath writes, "You are the one/ Solid the spaces lean on, envious./ You are the baby in the barn." These are haunting lines that ...