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Sylvia Plath's 'Collected Poems': A Review-Essay Review of this work and a comprehensive look at her poems.
Title: Sylvia Plath's 'Collected Poems': A Review-Essay Review of this work and a comprehensive look at her poems.
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1996 | Pages: 8.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sylvia Plath's 'Collected Poems': A Review-Essay Review of this work and a comprehensive look at her poems.
Sylvia Plath's 'Collected Poems': A Review-Essay
At last, almost twenty years after her death on February 11, 1963, here are the Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath. It is a book that should have appeared much sooner. By 1982, its publication seems somehow anti-climactic: witness the rather cool response it has received from newspaper reviewers. To reread Sylvia Plath today is to realize, somewhat ruefully, how different the early 1980s are from the early 1960s. Schizophrenia, of consuming interest …showed first 75 words of 1996 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1996 total…exceptionally well"). Rather, she becomes the outraged wife, a modern Medea who gave everything and was nevertheless betrayed. What an irony that the publication of these poems has depended precisely on the man who is their subject. What an irony that in "burning the letters," Sylvia Plath really could not destroy them or their legacy. Even as carbon, scattered around the cabbage patch of the poetry world, they continue to punish the dead poet. (pp. 312-13)
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