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Sylvia Plath
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Standard Name: Plath, Sylvia
Birth Name: Sylvia Plath
Married Name: Sylvia Hughes
SP
was primarily a poet, and most famously a confessional poet, although she also wrote a novel, a radio play, short stories and a book for children. She is best known for the poems she wrote in the last eighteen months that she lived. Her life story, complete with her suicide at the age of thirty, tends to overshadow her literary achievement, although critics of recent decades have made strides towards preserving her literary contribution and promoting its value.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | P. L. Travers | Sylvia Plath
spoke a great deal about Mary Poppins, calling her the fairy godmother of her childhood. Lawson, Valerie. Mary Poppins She Wrote. The Life of P. L. Travers, London: Aurum Press 2005. Aurum Press. xi |
| Literary responses | Anne Sexton | Like To Bedlam and Part Way Back before it, this was nominated for the National Book Award but did not in the end win. It brought Sexton, however, the award of a travelling scholarship from... |
| Literary responses | Anne Sexton | British reviews were mostly scathing. Despite some respectful notices, the tendency was to see Sexton as a weaker version of the confessional aspects of Sylvia Plath
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 364 |
| Literary responses | Leonora Carrington | In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner
likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as... |
| Literary responses | Stevie Smith | Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison
and Rosamond Lehmann
laid the foundations for SS
's friendships with these and other writers. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 125 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Literary responses | Stevie Smith | This brought her work to a large and enthusiastic audience. Sylvia Plath
wrote to SS
declaring herself a fan. Several poems were printed in US papers and periodicals to prepare for the American edition in... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | Sylvia Plath
, who began with negative comments about EB
, later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore
who is her godmother. Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 42-62. 44 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Clarke | Her volume opens with a poem, Baby Sitting, which voices a guilty unwillingness to respond to a child's demands; M. Wynn Thomas
thinks this a response to the angrier, rawer Morning Song which opens... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP
took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Kazantzis | JK
began writing at the age of seven. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | In 1951, however, the poet Louise Bogan
set out to recuperate her as the founder of a whole feminine school of rather daring verse on the subject of feminine and masculine emotions. Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press. 144 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Deborah Levy | This book has four sections, each titled from a reason for writing, Political Purpose, Historical Impulse, Sheer Egoism, and Aesthetic Enthusiasm. The first and last describe a period of near-breakdown that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Brontë | Feminist literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert
responded to both Emilies in one of her poetic collections: Emily's Bread (1984), and Anne Carson
to EB
, her favourite author and main fear, which I mean to... |
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