Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. She had a short, intense, and eventful life, during which she wrote poetry, a novel, short stories, and a diary.
Her father, Otto Plath, of German origin, worked as a professor of Biology at Boston University, where he met and married one of his students, Aurelia, Sylvia's mother.
In 1935, the couple's second child, Warren, was born. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, the family moved in 1936 to Winthrop, Massachusetts, where Sylvia would spend most of her childhood.
At the age of eight, Plath published her first poem in the children's section of the magazine. Boston HeraldOtto Plath died shortly after this publication (Sylvia would later write about the ambiguous relationship the poem had with him). "Daddy").
In his first year at Smith CollegePlath attempted suicide with a narcotic overdose, which led to her hospitalization in a psychiatric institution. During the summer of her third year of university studies, Sylvia Plath traveled to New York for a month, contributing to the magazine. Mademoiselle.
None of that prevented her from being a brilliant student, graduating with honors at age 23. She even received a scholarship. Fulbright to attend Cambridge University in England, where she continued to write poetry. She is therefore a young woman of refined manners and a rebellious spirit.
In February 1956, he met, at the launch party of St. Botolph Review, the poet Ted Hughes, whom she would marry four months later. It is a fusional encounter of dazzling intensity.
Between July 1957 and October 1959, the young couple lived in the United States, eventually settling in Boston, where Sylvia Plath attended Robert Lowell's seminars and met the poet Anne Sexton. Facing financial difficulties, Sylvia even had to work in a psychiatric hospital.
With Sylvia Plath's pregnancy, the couple returned to England in 1959, settling in London and later in the small town of North Tawton, Devon. In 1960, Frieda was born, and two years later, Nicholas. Sylvia Plath's first book of poems... The Colossus, was published in England in 1960 and, two years later, in the United States. In February 1961, Plath suffered a miscarriage, which would become a recurring theme in several of her poems.
In the early 1960s, his relationship with Ted Hughes entered a crisis, mainly due to Ted's relationship with Assia Wevill (Ted Hughes would later give his version of what happened in...). Birthday Letters(And Assia, the wife of a Canadian poet, would commit suicide with her daughter in 1969). The couple separated at the end of 1962. It was in the winter following the separation, during a period of depression, that Sylvia wrote Ariel.
Plath returns to London with her children, renting an apartment on Fitzroy Road, where she would write a semi-autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She feels isolated and depressed.
On the morning of February 11, 1963, it was snowing over London and the cold was intense. Sylvia Plath committed suicide with gas from the stove, having first taken care to protect her children.