Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.
Plath imagines that the Colossus, which once dominated the harbor at Rhodes, is her father's dead body, now lying broken in pieces on a hillside. The father's “ancient” power and size have been destroyed through time.
Lois Ames, 'Notes Toward a Biography' in Charles Newman (ed.), The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium (London, Faber & Faber, 1970), pp. 155–174. 4. Ibid., p. 162. 5. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (London, Faber & Faber, 1966), p. 250.
The latter, analysed recently in Phillip Rieff's Fellow Teachers, with its Roman antecedents, is a form of egoistical nihilism that could mean the end of civilization itself. To abjure discrimination is no service to the artist herself, ...
In her book Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Judith Kroll talks about the moon as a central symbol in Plath's poetry. She points out that there are more than a hundred direct references to the moon in the poems and ...
Now thoroughly revised and expanded in the light of recent research, the second edition of this essential text contains new chapters and more close reading of the poetry.
Sylvia Plath
By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing.
In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath: eine Biographie
Sylvia Plath
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
Part of a set of six beautiful, collectable hardcover gift editions.
Her close analysis of Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light into Plath's work in the late 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.
Challenged by the editor of the magazine Jay Cee to explain in what way she feels she is more accomplished than all the other girls who 'flood into New York every June thinking they'll be editors' (BJ 35), she begins to fear that she is ...
(1976 118-119) In consequence, Kroll concludes that Plath's entire poetic oeuvre constitutes a 'unified body of work' and that 'the early poems logically and consistently progress toward the final formulation of the myth and its ...
Taking a roughly chronological structure, he traces the unique nature of Plath's poetic gift, finding - with reference to Letters Home, The Bell Jar, The Journals and the stories and autobiographical reminiscences - an essential unity in ...
Throughout her life, Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration. This collection sheds light on these key years in her life, capturing her exquisite observations of the world around her.
Using unabridged journals and the Ted Hughes archives, presents the life and accomplishments of the famous poet and novelist who wrote "The Bell Jar."