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English
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The author shows how Plath's remarkable lyric dramas define a private ritual process. The book deals with the emotional material from which Plath's poetry arises and the specific ritual transformations she dramatizes. It covers all phases of Plath's poetry, closely following the development of image and idea from the apprentice work through the last lyrics of Ariel. The critical method stays close to the language of the poems and defines Plath's struggle...
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English
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The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith, Plath had a conflicted relationship with her mother. She married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the sturm und drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected--and ultimately embraced by readers everywhere. At age thirty she committed suicide. Ariel, a collection of poems she wrote at white-hot speed during her final months, became...
10) Sylvia Plath
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 309
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English
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Critical examination of Plath's writing.
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English
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"Breaking Down Plath will inform readers of essential facts about Sylvia Plath's life and address important underlying themes in her works, such as The Bell Jar. Grisafi will explain why Plath's biography matters in any book and how to approach an influential, popular, and controversial author. This book will include a brief thematic tour through Plath's short fiction, journals and letters, reoccurring themes in Plath's poetry, an overview of Plath's...
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