The first biography of Sylvia Plath to draw on unpublished journals and letters, Sylvia Plath provides a detailed, objective, and illuminating portrait of this talented and tortured woman who is widely recognized as one of America's foremost poets of the 20th century. 20 pages of photos.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Clear, precise description of a haunted woman,
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So far, this is one of the clearest, and easiest to read biographies of one of the finest (and most intriguing) female poets of the 20th century. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to know more about Sylvia Plath, but doesn't feel like sorting through endless fluff and interpretations of her work. This book simply describes the life of a tortured woman writer. Good job, great reading!
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Refreshing, Yet Informative,
This review is from: Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Vermilion Books) (Paperback)
I am a recent follower in Sylvia Plath's work and I found that this biography read like a fiction novel, which I think that more biographical writers should do. It maintained this while being serious and formal about Sylvia's pain and her re-occuring issues with her husband. This book is highly recommended to anyone wanted to find out more about Sylvia's life from an unbiased point of view.
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Informative,
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This review is from: Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Vermilion Books) (Paperback)
I had the pleasure of taking an American Women Authors class taught by Linda Wagner-Martin at UNC Chapel Hill, and let me tell you, she really knows her stuff about Plath. She fascinated us with her tales of the process of writing this book. For a fresh perspective on the life and work of Sylvia Plath, this is a good one.
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If her early childhood was not idyllic, it came close. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rabbit catcher, spring poems, unpublished journals, bell jar, late poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bell, New York, The Colossus, Marcia Brown, Otto Plath, Sylvia Plath, Boston University, Ruth Beuscher, Perry Norton, Aurelia Plath, Cape Cod, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Compton, Elmwood Road, Winifred Davies, Dick Norton, Ellie Friedman, Gordon Lameyer, Lady Lazarus, Press Board, Ted Hughes, United States, Anne Sexton, Olive Higgins Prouty, Smith College New!
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If her early childhood was not idyllic, it came close. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rabbit catcher, spring poems, unpublished journals, bell jar, late poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bell, New York, The Colossus, Marcia Brown, Otto Plath, Sylvia Plath, Boston University, Ruth Beuscher, Perry Norton, Aurelia Plath, Cape Cod, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Compton, Elmwood Road, Winifred Davies, Dick Norton, Ellie Friedman, Gordon Lameyer, Lady Lazarus, Press Board, Ted Hughes, United States, Anne Sexton, Olive Higgins Prouty, Smith College New!
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- The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath on 16 pages
- Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 by Sylvia Plath on 6 pages
- Ted Hughes (Beginner's Guides (Hodder & Stoughton)) by Charlie Bell on 6 pages
- Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath on 5 pages
- Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography by Edward Butscher on 5 pages
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- Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook on 8 pages
- Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook on 8 pages
- Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren in Front Matter, page 225, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jo Gill on page 19, page 88, and page 152
- The Cradle of Violence: Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature (Forensic Focus, 2) by Stephen Wilson on page 118, and Back Matter
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