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

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

“Will There Ever Be Another You” is a portrait of one woman’s crisis, not unlike Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” but without her clarity and acerbic confidence.

From Los Angeles Times

Clark, whose brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” was a Pulitzer finalist, uses her first novel to explore a highly literary and highly troubled relationship.

From Los Angeles Times

Her favorite activity when she was a teen was to sit by her bedroom window while listening to Simon & Garfunkel and reading Sylvia Plath.

From Los Angeles Times

Claiming Plath was a way to elevate our teenage sadness from pedestrian and expected and cliché to literary, tragic, romantic.

From Salon