Full Description
The emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. She studies elements of Plath's work with dedication to discussions of style and effect. Close attention to Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing in both fiction and poetry provides information helpful to understanding the late work of the 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.
Contents
Chronology - PART I - The Writing Life - Creating Lives - Creating the Persona of the Self - Recalling the Bell Jar - Lifting the Bell Jar - Plath's Hospital Writing - Defining Health - PART II - The Journey Toward Ariel - Plath's Poems about Women - Plath's Triumphant Woman Poems - Getting Rid of Daddy - Sylvia Plath, The Poet and Her Writing Life - Notes - Bibliography (selected), Primary and Secondary - Index
