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

Mr. Wilson is a journalist who has written biographies of Patricia Highsmith, Alexander McQueen and Sylvia Plath.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Its author, Gail Crowther, has a knack for finding new angles on unhappy literary women, including Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

More than 60 years have passed since her death in 1963, yet the literary myth that has taken the name Sylvia Plath lives on.

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

This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green