Plath

[ plath ]

noun

1. Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.

Plath

/ plæθ /

noun

1. PlathSylvia19321963FUSWRITING: poet 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

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

Something lighthearted and funny that will include Sylvia Plath and Louise Bourgeois.

From Salon

It made me think of Sylvia Plath, who was accused of antisemitism for appropriating Jewish identity and the Holocaust in her poem, “Daddy.”

From Los Angeles Times