Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
"Sylvia Plath" by Bettmann/Contributor,1950-01-01.Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/photo-shows-author-sylvia-plath-seated-in-front-of-a-news-photo/515404262.
The errant unicorn that she struggles to ride is the poetic impulse, and she says she entertains incompatible wishes: to ride it hard towards social goals, but also not to be labelled or compelled along...
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Jennifer Dawson
The title (not the one under which it was first submitted) strikingly anticipates that of Sylvia Plath
's The Bell Jar, 1963, with its image of an invisible barrier separating the protagonist from the...
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Michèle Roberts
The contents of this volume span a range of genres and moods. poems about places or natural objects observe with precision; love poems are often ambivalent: won't you make my blood / jump? won't you...
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Gillian Allnutt
In the The Talking PrincessGA
grapples with the challenges of finding and asserting the female voice: I woke / and begged one question of my adoring prince. / Would he accord my dream...
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Alexander Pope
The play is remarkable among its other fun for a minor characater, Phoebe Clinket, an unhinged woman poet. She was wrongly identified in Edward Parker
's Key as Anne Finch
, a mistake which has...
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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...
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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
She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
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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)...
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.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 6, Mar. 2003, pp. 1-4.
1, 3
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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
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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.
This book attempts to tell the story of Plath
's marital sitation without taking sides, and not to let the knowledge of her later fame colour the telling of her story in its own day.
