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Sylvia Plath
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Standard Name: Plath, Sylvia
Birth Name: Sylvia Plath
Married Name: Sylvia Hughes
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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Wendy Cope | Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint... |
| Literary responses | Laura Riding | This broadcast brought a notable poetic response. Sylvia Plath
wrote a poem, Little Fugue, which she annotated, on listening to Laura Riding. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 400 |
| Literary responses | Anne Stevenson | Germaine Greer
praises her in Slip-Shod Sibyls for expressing consciousness of herself as a woman poet rather than the woman poet, for looking forward to the forging of a new language in which women would... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | FH
remained continuously in print throughout the Victorian period, but her critical reputation and popularity waned before its close and died with modernism. She lingered on in popular memory as the author of popular recitation... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | Thomas Hardy
(as reported by Elinor Wylie
) is believed to have said her poems were one of the only two great things in the United States, the other being the skyscraper. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. xiii, 290 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Brigid Brophy | One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | The authors use as epigraph a passage from Sylvia Plath
's Three Women: a Poem for Three Voices. Oakley, Ann et al. Miscarriage. Fontana. 9 |
| 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... |
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