Plath

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/ plæθ /

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noun

Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.

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How to use Plath in a sentence

Ten years after her stay at the Barbizon and weeks after she published “The Bell Jar” in 1963, Plath stuck her head in the oven.
The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams|Mary Jo Murphy|March 26, 2021|Washington Post
The Barbizon becomes the fictional Amazon hotel, and Plath is Esther Greenwood, the narrator.
The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams|Mary Jo Murphy|March 26, 2021|Washington Post
Plath wrote of her experience in “The Bell Jar,” her only novel.
The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams|Mary Jo Murphy|March 26, 2021|Washington Post
There are also essays on Jean Rys, Sylvia Plath, the Brontës, and Henry Roth.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Who could not wonder what Plath might have achieved if she had been given even a decade more to write?
Thank You, Elizabeth Wurtzel: ‘Prozac Nation’ Turns 20|Nicolaus Mills|July 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And the unhip multitudes it contains include Disney, Salinger, and Sylvia Plath.
What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I wanted something that connects Walt Disney and J.D. Salinger and Buddy Holly and Sylvia Plath to what we now know as Twee.
What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yes, I confess that Plath putting her head into the oven, too, was portrayed.
Robert Pinsky: The Comedy of Seamus Heaney|Robert Pinsky|October 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for Plath

Plath

/ (plæθ) /

noun

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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