Plath

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An American writer and poet who wrote honest poems and the novel The Bell Jar

proper noun
/plæθ/

: Sylvia Plath

Many readers admire Plath for the raw emotion conveyed in her novel, 'The Bell Jar'.
Sylvia Plath

If they're depressed, they might like the The Bell Junior by Sylvia Plath.

Examples

Social class and economic realities play a surprising role in Anita Helle's review essay of recent work about U.S. poet Sylvia Plath, who labored picking strawberries during her teenage summers and who kept exact notes about the money she made from her writing.

Academic text (2005)
Carol Ann Duffy was tasked with editing a new selection of poems by Sylvia Plath.

Blog text (1)
She'd found Ireland "just in time," Plath told her mother in that letter of October 12.

Blog text (15)
So should I still bring the Sylvia Plath or...?

Easy A (2010)
Some men have read Sylvia Plath and like her quite a bit.

Fiction book (1993)
The "Mad Men" television episode was called "Lady Lazarus" after a poem by Sylvia Plath.

Blog text (28)
I remembered a sad, powerful Sylvia Plath poem called "Tulips."

Fiction book (1995)
I read Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar on the plane to Canberra in 2007.

Blog text (9)
Writers who won accolades for childhood publications were Pearl Buck, Edna Ferber, and Sylvia Plath.

Academic text (1995)
Sylvia Plath is often celebrated for her confessional poetry that reveals deep personal struggles.

Synonyms

Sylvia Plath

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An American poet and writer known for her emotional poetry and the novel The Bell Jar

is the shorter surname form used alone in citations

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Plath is a family name of German origin, likely from an old word meaning 'flat land', which is a helpful way to remember its sound and origin. Because of the poet Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), the name Plath now usually refers to her and her honest, emotional poems and the novel 'The Bell Jar'.