Plath

[plath]

noun

1. Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.

Plath

/ 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

Example Sentences

“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

I scanned the stacks of books teetering against one wall, not on shelves but layered like bricks, and a slim off-white spine called to me: Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel."

From Salon

Instead, she suggested they should read Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir or Charlotte Bronte.

From Salon