Whoever says that you cannot learn something on Twitter is wrong? Icy day in Knoxville! A good opportunity to see this 1945 #SylviaPlath original in our #SpecialCollections . Here’s a peek of “King of the Ice” by a Plath, age 12 (Patricia Cornwell Collection) @UTKEnglish pic.twitter.com/UlqEbL99qM — Chris Caldwell ⚡️ (@RareBooks37996) November 12, 2019 So, Chris Caldwell is a Sylvia Plath influencer. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has a several precious Sylvia Plath items in its Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives . The first two items mentioned here are a part of the Patricia Cornwell Collection. The first item they have is a manuscript copy of Plath's poem " King of the Ice " written on 10 January 1945. Plath wrote about the poem in her diary that day saying that once she got home from school and a music lesson, she set to work on a letter, story, or poem for the Phillipian , her junior high school newspaper. The assig...