The Bell Jar | Critical Overview
Two years before Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, her collection of poetry The Colossus opened to some good reviews, particularly in the United States. That Plath published The Colossus under her own name but published The Bell Jar under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas meant the reviewers would judge the latter on its own merits. Of course, the original critics of The Bell Jar did note that its author was the estranged wife of Ted Hughes, who was becoming a successful poet in his own right.
Some early reviews were encouraging. Robert Taubman,...
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