I HAVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED AN EPIC FREE VERSE NEW THEORY ON THE LIFE AND SUICIDE OF SYLVIA PLATH. LAST WEEK THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT PRINTED A SMALL...
I have been writing about how I first came across Sylvia Plath and her work has affected my life. I would be interested in hearing other people's Sylvia...
Emma Merrygold
emmamerrygold@...
Jan 16, 2002 9:06 pm
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I have just read Erica Wagner's response to Birthday Letters and was wondering how everyone felt about either her book of the poems themselves....
Emma Merrygold
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Jan 16, 2002 9:06 pm
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Ah!!! Finally!!! Some Plath postings!!! Thank you! I have read some of the poems in "Birthday Letters". I have no particular reaction to them other...
I first "found" Sylvia when I was in high school. I took part in a summer program at Wellesley College and was in a poetry class which was pretty much just 5...
tuckbudd3@...
Jan 17, 2002 5:11 am
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Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone else has read "A Closer Look At Ariel: A Memory Of Sylvia Plath" by Nancy Hunter Steiner who was a former room mate of ...
the nancy steiner book is okay. the most interesting thing about it is the fact that they were so close, she happens to know some interesting details of...
Hi, Steph, So glad you asked! I have read "A Closer Look at Ariel". I think it is a wonderful book. In fact, only last night I pulled it off my shelf and...
I see the comparison between the persona of Plath and Sexton in that they were similar ages, struggled with famillies children and tried balancing that with ...
Before Plath there was the french philosopher Simone Weil. The photographer Joel-Peter Witkin gave me a book about her a few years ago... Weil went completely...
TJO
dimestore_alchemy@...
Jan 28, 2002 9:48 am
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Because Sexton wasnt remotely the writer Plath was. Sexton admitted that herself after Plath's death. Sexton was a good poet, Plath a great one. Sexton...
Like Plath? Huh???? Maybe in the fact that they both had Hughes and both offed themselves, but I wouldn't compare them at all. I think that they don't have...
I agree - in fact i just read some more of her yesterday and still the same disappointment as always. She did not have the same technical skill that Plath had....
They both had Hughes? Never heard that one before ... Kat ... ===== Animals are our fellow travellers upon the earth. They deserve our kindness and respect. ...
plath and sexton were both confessional, extremely autobiographical poets! they were friends, attended workshops togther. wrote in the same social climate....
Athiena00@...
Jan 29, 2002 9:30 pm
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See "Crisis and Confession : Studies in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath" by E. V. Ramakrishnan (out of print; check your local...
I agree with you Kat on that. I have never been a huge fan of Sexton and I don't think that she had the talent that Plath possessed. I think that Sexton had a...
There are many critics with many different opinions; however perhaps Sexton herself said it best in 1965 in an essay entitled "The Barfly Ought To Sing", which...
Athiena The term 'confessional' is outdated and used loosely to categorize everyone who varied from traditional form, structure, and content in the late 50's...
I agree that "Sylvia's Death" (the AS poem) is shit- for lack of a better word, but let's not forget that not all her poems were sloppy- "You Dr. Martin" is an...
One of the reasons I think SP is such a special poet is her ability to write with a masculine voice, something that many female poets do not do & probably why...
I agree with everything s p says except "No other writer with the exception of Shakespeare, has as many books written on them as Plath". Woah, stop right...
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