Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 3) - Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963
Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963
Ms. Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer who lived in England. Her powerful, memorable poems often opposed violent, slashing images and great tenderness, infinite love. Death, pain, and loss were her constant themes. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 19-20.)
[Typical] of Sylvia Plath's procedure in [her] last poems [is that the] more desperate she is, the more image thickens into image, dividing and multiplying like fertilized cells; the tighter, too, is her rhythmical control, varying between a chopped, savage, American throw-away and a weirdly jaunty nursery-rhyme bounce. A wealth of image-breeding creativity and the whole book of technique is thrown at situations and feelings that otherwise seem to overbear all technique. It is an art like that of a racing driver [driving] a car: the art of keeping precise control over something which, to the outsider, seems utterly beyond all...
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