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Essential Plath Analysis,
This review is from: Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study (Paperback)
If you could only buy one academic analysis of the tropes in Sylvia Plath's work, make it this one. Kendall does Plath's thematic obsessiveness justice, with an equally obsessive probing into the hidden messages of the interlocking symbols in her work.
Ted Hughes observed how her poems can effectively be considered one long poem, because of the continual refinement of its themes. Indeed, "the woman is perfected." Another treat for fans comes with well-chosen excerpts from the drafts; Kendall's hair-raising analysis of "The Moon and the Yew Tree" unlocks the poem as never before, and indeed "startles the green out of the grass." This insightful, inspired thematic map is the kind of study Sylvia Plath's work deserves. |
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Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study by Tim Kendall (Paperback - September 12, 2001)
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