Confession and Development in Sylvia Plath's Poetry and Prose

Sylvia Path was one of the most dynamic and admired American poets of the 20th century. Her work attracted the attention of many readers who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalog despair, violent emotion and obsession with death.
Plath's poems and prose explore her own mental anguish, her troubled marriage to poet Ted Hughes, her unresolved conflicts with her parents and her own vision of herself.