How to pronounce “plath” in English

Sylvia Plath, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Bach, Schumann, Kurt Cobain, and recently David Foster Wallace.

Sylvia Plath wrote this five years prior to her suicide.

Researchers tend to focus on Plath's relationship with Ted Hughes, on her writing, and her mental illness, and her death

Since childhood, Plath had written to her mother regularly, whenever she was away.

And how can we account for the alienation that Plath describes?

Almost 100 years later, the American writer Sylvia Plath, whose letters were published quite recently, you might have noticed-- she provides another example of this relationship

In her semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar," Plath alluded to two metaphorical bell jars, one that was put over the mind of the novel's narrator,

There were people talking about Hemingway, about Plath, and so on.

And so the "Sunday Times" associated your prose with that of Sylvia Plath's.

You think, actually, somebody once compared me to Sylvia Plath.

And he also wrote about suicidal ideas spreading as a form of contagion, which is interesting because we can see this at work in Sylvia Plath's writing, when

So I moved from London up to Yorkshire, and it was in-- Ted Hughes-- he was the Laureate-- he used to be married to Sylvia Plath.