Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at age 30, may be intrinsically linked with death, but, for much of her short life, she was in love with the world. She wrung sensorial pleasures to the last drop: ...