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Sylvia Plath American poetry portal Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath at Hughes's family's home in Yorkshire, England, 1956 Sylvia Plath seated indoors in front of bookshelves, wearing a plaid shirt and dark sweater, with long wavy hair, looking at the camera.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath (born October 27, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died February 11, 1963, London, England) was an American poet and novelist whose best-known works, such as the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences and, by extension, the situation of women in mid-20th-century America. The searing use of language and shocking honesty in her works helped make her...

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