Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems

by Susan R. Van Dyne

Book Overview

'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life--the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.'Choice ' Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous poet and a perfect mother. . . . This book's main points are clearly and forcefully argued: that both poems and babies require 'struggle, pain, endless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784487X
• ISBN13: 9780807844878
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 9.2"