Sylvia Plath’s short life and intense poetry continue to draw considerable critical and popular attention. Among her more recognizable works are the poetry collection
Ariel
and the novel
The Bell Jar . Her suicide and tumultuous marriage to Ted Hughes, as well as his choices in posthumously publishing some of her work (and not publishing other parts of it) add to the mystery of Plath’s life, and are documented in this newly updated
Bloom’s Modern Critical Views
title. This book offers readers fresh perspectives on a writer whose highly personal oeuvre continues to fascinate more than 40 years after her tragic death.