![]() ![]() ![]() There have been various – often contested and contradictory – biographies of Plath since her death as well as much of her own autobiographical work including two volumes of her letters (the third volume is published in September 2018) and her journals. ![]() ![]() After her death, Hughes went on to published three further volumes of Plath’s unpublished verse including including The Collected Poems, which was the recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize, making Plath the first poet to posthumously win the award.Ĭritics have compared Plath’s work to that of other American so-called ‘confessional’ poets including Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell and her life and work have made her a major cult figure for writers and readers alike. Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in 1963, a month before Plath took her own life at the age of 30. Sylvia Plaths journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plaths husband, Ted Hughes. In 1962, after her separation from Hughes, Plath wrote and published her most famous poetry collection, Ariel. Plath’s first collection of poetry, The Colossus, was first published in 1960. After graduating from Smith College, Plath moved to Cambridge, England on a Fulbright scholarship where she met and married Ted Hughes. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had already published poems in regional journals and newspapers before leaving school. ![]()
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