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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Many of these poems are occasional. Journal Entry: Ward's Island, inscribed to Lauris Edmond
, recalls minus-eighteen-degree weather on the last day of a poetry festival in Toronto in February 1989. (AS
describes... |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | These pieces cover elders and friends (Larkin
, Walcott
, Patrick Kavanagh
), poets of Eastern Europe where poetry performs the service of resistance to political oppression (as it might do in Northern Ireland... |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | The Rattle Bag, arranged not by date, or theme, or even alphabetically by author, but alphabetically by title, aims at and achieves a happy and fertile randomness, gathering chips of brilliance from all times... |
| Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | LC
's text adapts the story of Judith and Holofernes and includes several more characters whose names also come from the Bible version. In addition to the widow Judith, it features her father, Issachar (in... |
| Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | The other poets included are Kathleen Raine
, Denise Levertov
, Elizabeth Jennings
, Elaine Feinstein
, Ruth Fainlight
, Sylvia Plath
, Jenny Joseph
, Anne Stevenson
, and Fleur Adcock
. |
| Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
published what one critic described as a kind of soap-opera biography or literary thriller about Sylvia Plath
, Ted Hughes
, and Assia Wevill
, The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xx , No. 6, Mar. 2003, pp. 1-4. 1, 3 |
| Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | AS
's life of Sylvia Plath
, Bitter Fame, was published by Viking
in London and Houghton Mifflin
in Boston; even before it appeared it was immensely controversial. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 29-33 |
| Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
edited a selection of Sylvia Plath
's poetry for Faber
in 2012, and in 2013 she edited A Laureate's Choice: 101 Poems for Children, with illustrations by Emily Gravett
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath
, D. H. Lawrence
, Thom Gunn
, Ted Hughes
, Cesare Pavese
, Eugene Ionesco
, Simone de Beauvoir
, Jorge Luis Borges
,... |
| Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | During her first marriage AS
tried to write a novel, but found (like Sylvia Plath
's heroine in The Bell Jar) that she had nothing to say. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 10 |
| Textual Production | Tillie Olsen | TO
's dazzling performance as a Communist speaker was the first phase of a career that led towards her later years as a star literary lecturer. As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
she spoke... |
| Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | AS
retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 173 qtd. in Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 170-1 |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | In addition to these collaborative works, AS
has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michelene Wandor | Gardens of Eden begins by quoting Genesis and the Alphabet of Ben Sira. In the latter (source for the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife) Lilith claims equality with Adam. Wandor, Michelene. Gardens of Eden. Journeyman, 1984. 1 The Alphabet... |
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