Plath

American  

[plath] / plæθ /

noun

1. Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.

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Plath British  

/ plæθ /

noun

1. Sylvia. 1932–63, US poet living in England. She wrote two volumes of verse, The Colossus (1960) and Ariel (1965), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963): she was married to Ted Hughes

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Example Sentences

Susanna and Grace bond while singing a gentle duet about former patients Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

One of the most popular is called “Pursuing the Good Life”; this semester, readings included the Bible, Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, along with poetry by Sylvia Plath and music by Beethoven.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Plath and Swift, Nelson argues, have been judged by “the same script that has greeted female profusion, personalism, and ambition literally for millennia.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

I think about Ted Hughes, moving Assia Wevill into the home he’d shared with Plath, of her wearing Sylvia’s clothes, brushing her hair with the same brush.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins