Letters to a Psychiatrist (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: May Sarton
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Psychology or psychologists, Doctors, Letter writing, Letters, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Mind and body, Patients
The Poem
As the title suggests, “Letters to a Psychiatrist” is a series of letters in verse. They are six in number, written to Marynia F. Farnham, the author and psychiatrist to whom A Durable Fire: New Poems, the collection in which these poems first appeared, is dedicated. As a sequence of poems, these six letters in verse, though varied in length and form, move from Christmas, 1970, the time of the first poem, through Easter, 1971, the time of the fifth poem. The movement of the sequence is at once linear and circular. The first-person narrator, a patient of...
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