Sylvia Plath Gallery

Behind the art

Sylvia Plath, American poet, married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956. The two had two children, Frieda and Nicholas, before separating in 1962. Plath commited suicide in 1963. Plath won a Pulitzer Prize posthumous for her poetry and is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. Hughes would go on to become England’s poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.