Author: sylviaplathforum

Introduction to the forum The Sylvia Plath Forum was started in January 1998 by Elaine Connell author of Sylvia Plath: Killing the Angel in the House (Pennine Pens). Intrigued by the unexpected publication of Ted Hughes’ collection of poems about his first wife, “Birthday Letters” Elaine, who lives in Hebden Bridge near where Plath is buried and…

AUDIO Sylvia Plath (order the audio cassette) Lady Lazarus Real Audio November Graveyard (1:09) MP3 (407 KB) | Real Audio Mushroom MP3 (407 KB) | Real Audio On the Decline of Oracles MP3 (407 KB) | Real Audio Black Rook in Rainy Weather (1:46) MP3 (624 KB) | Real Audio Sow (2:09) Real Audio Alvarez on BBC R4, Sunday, 19th March 2000 (order the…

Poems inspired by Sylvia Plath Jack Folsom : The Mended Mask  Richard Wilbur: Cottage Street, 1953  Megan: SP 2,002 degrees Rebecca Price: Ashes Hazera Bibi: Mrs. Hughes Rebecca Price : Sylvia’s Pure Jim Long: Epitaph for Sylvia Alexandra Sarll: The Other Side Elizabeth Sigmund: Sheppenmuth Tara Sahgal: For Ted Jim Long: Edgelit Your Presence Confirmed: Laurie Eckhout Gary Hyland: Playing Your Last Tape Jack Porter: Valentine for Sylvia Kenneth Jones: Dolesong Drew…

Photos Sylvia’s Wellesley High School graduation photo, 1950 Sylvia Plath, Devon 1962, with Frieda and Nicholas Ted and Sylvia, Paris honeymoon – 1956 Ted and Sylvia, Massachusetts, 20th May 1959 Photo of Sylvia Plath with children Ted and Sylvia Photo of a young Sylvia Plath Sylvia’s grave in Heptonstall, UK, 27th October 1998 Sylvia’s grave in…

ARTICLES No longer just a tragic footnote’ – from the Assia Wevill biography Daily Telegraph, 21st September, 2006 ‘Die, die soon. But execute yourself and your little self efficiently’Ķ’ – from the Assia Wevill biography Daily Telegraph, 11th September, 2006 ‘I’m going to seduce Ted Hughes’ – from the Assia Wevill biography Daily Telegraph, 9th September, 2006 Found after…

Plath websites Sylvia Plath Forum Anja Beckmann’s Sylvia Plath pages   Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at Oxford, October 2007 Sylvia Plath Biography The Academy of American Poets: Sylvia Plath Neurotic Poets: Sylvia Plath Peter Steinberg’s Sylvia Plath pages Sylvia Plath 70th Year Commemoration and Literary Symposium at Indiana University in fall 2002 Sylvia Plath pages of the Book Case,…

Can you help me write my paper? This is from a contribution by Carole Petrone which the forum endorses: “Just a comment to those of you who are working on papers or projects about Plath and Hughes for your high school classes: I think that the current enthusiasm of young students about Sylvia Plath is…

Analysis and discussion of individual poems Lesbos Poppies In July Edge Ariel Lady Lazarus Daddy Words The Bee Meeting Cut Mirror The Moon and the Yew Tree Mystic The Thin People Tulips Poems inspired by Sylvia

BOOKS ORDER ONLINE from Amazon The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath by Anita Helle (Editor) UK US Forty-Five: Poems – by Frieda Hughes UK US A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia Wevill UK US The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill (Editor) UK US A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia…

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