Plath

Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963
... is a collection of letters written by Sylvia Plath to her family between her years at college, in 1950, and her death at age 30 ... Sylvia's mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, edited the letters and agreed to have the collection published by Harper Row in 1975 ... Letters Home contains an introduction by Aurelia Plath, who adds bits of commentary and context throughout ...

Electra Complex - Electra in Poetry
... The American poet Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) acknowledged that the poem Daddy (1962) is about a woman, afflicted with an unresolved Electra complex, who conflates her dead father and ... In conflating father and husband as one man, Sylvia Plath indicates their emotional equality in her life the unresolved Electra complex ...

Ariel (book)
... Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published, and was originally published in 1965, two years after her death by suicide ... and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier Colossus poems ... In the 1965 edition of Ariel, Ted Hughes changed Plath's chosen selection and arrangement by dropping twelve poems, adding twelve composed a few months later, and shifting the poems ...

Sylvia Plath Effect - Sylvia Plath
... Although it has been suggested that Plath did not intend to kill herself, Dr ... Others say that Plath's American doctor had warned her never again to take the anti-depressant drug prescribed by Horder as it was found to worsen her depression, but he ... Plath, on February 11, 1963, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in her kitchen after thrusting her head in the oven ...