This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James
, Scott Fitzgerald
, and Charles Baudelaire
, expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed.
Plath, Sylvia. “Ennui”. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol.
5
, No. 2.
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Sylvia Kantaris
Gross had written a favourable review of The Tenth Muse in the South West Review.
Kantaris, Sylvia. The Sea at the Door. Secker and Warburg.
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This later book began when SK
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