After Plath’s death, her husband Ted Hughes published a different version of Ariel, cutting 12 poems from the typescript and adding 14 poems that she did not include in the original sequence. The back ...

ABOVE: Sylvia Plath, her mother and two children in 1962. Professor Lynda K Bundtzen, author of The Other Ariel points to the ‘bee’ poems Plath wrote in October 1962. “Why would any woman be ...

While Plath's work is not the sole focus of Van Dyne's writing and teaching, she has written extensively about the poet and her work. Van Dyne's Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems, published by ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the ... the literary critic Al Alvarez, described Plath’s Ariel poems as “a murderous art,” and another, George Steiner, wrote ...

there may be an important clue to the timing of his suicide in a poem that Sylvia Plath wrote about him shortly before her suicide. In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her collection, Ariel ...