

In honor of National Poetry Month, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture Dorothy Moss writes on captivating poet and novelist Sylvia Plath. Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Sylvia Plath.Sylvia Plath / Rollie McKenna / Gelatin silver print, 1959 (printed later) / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of Rollie McKenna, © Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation Wikiquote haes quotations relatit tae: Sylvia Plath Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters. Ann Arbor, MI: Varsity of Michigan Press. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath-a Marriage.

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait Conceived and Adapted from Her Writings. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. " Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically." Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath.

Controversy continues tae surroond the events of her life and daith, as well as her writing and legacy. Plath suffered frae depression for hintle o her adult life, an in 1963 she committit suicide. She marriet fellae poet Ted Hughes in 1956 an thay livit thegither first in the Unitit States an then Ingland, haein twa childer thegither, Frieda an Nicholas. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studiet at Smith College an Newnham College, Cambridge, afore receivin acclaim as a profeesional poet an writer. Sylvia Plath (27 October 1932 – 11 Februar 1963) wis a American poet, novelist an short story writer.
