Plath was raised in Massachusetts, and her father passed away when she was only 8 years old, around the time she published her first poem.
Plath was raised in Massachusetts, and her father passed away when she was only 8 years old, around the time she published her first poem. While she lived a short life, Plath published to great acclaim. She studied with Anne Sexton and under Robert Lowell, and a posthumously published poetry collection, with several never-before-seen poems, earned the Pulitzer Prize. “Daddy,” which alludes to her troubled relationships with her father and her husband, and “Lady Lazurus” are her most famous poems. You can read Sylvia Plath’s poetry in The Collossus, available from publisher Penguin Random House.